Detectives reveal how message signed with ‘x’ by millionaire bludgeoned to death led them to killers

Detectives have revealed how a single kiss in a text message helped connect a millionaire murder victim to the group of men who had bludgeoned him to death in his home in a violent robbery.  Property tycoon William John Saunderson-Smith, 58, was found in the attic bedroom of his £850,000 home in West Kensington, in … Read more

Binman, 47, ‘bludgeoned lover, 52, to death with plastic tray during drunken row’, trial hears

A binman told police he bludgeoned his partner to death with a plastic tray during a drunken row in lockdown, a court heard.    Wayne Morris, 47, also sent harrowing text messages days after battering Ruth Brown, 52, at her home in Bognor, West Sussex, at the beginning of April last year, Lewes Crown Court in … Read more

Businesswoman, 41, who bludgeoned her next-door neighbour to death with a spade jailed for 21 years

A businesswoman who ‘mercilessly’ bludgeoned her next-door neighbour to death with a spade after blaming the former Lib Dem councillor’s untidy home for her inability to sell her own house was jailed for 21 years today. Debby Foxwell, a privately educated, 41-year-old company director, was convicted of murdering her Welwyn Garden City neighbour Louise Lotz … Read more

‘Innocent’ trucker is tortured and bludgeoned to death by vigilante parents

‘Innocent’ trucker is tortured and bludgeoned to death by vigilante parents after girls ‘lied that he had touched them “below the waist” while giving them a lift’ in Russia A girl said Russian Dmitry Chikvarkin, 48, had touched her and a three-year-old The truck driver had given a lift to the two children at the … Read more