Anglia Murder News

A MAN arrested on suspicion of the murder of Una Crown in Wisbech has been bailed.

The 58 year old had been arrested yesterday morning (Thursday). He has been released on bail pending further enquiries.

Mrs Crown, 86, was discovered in her home in Magazine Lane on Sunday, January 13. She was last seen alive on the morning of Friday, January 11, but had spoken to a friend by telephone on the Saturday.

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A man from Luton's been found guilty of the murder of a mother of three in the town.

Shobhna Jethwa was stabbed twenty times in what police described as a frenzied attack at her home in Butely Road last September.

Her body was found by her children when they came home from school. Sultan Khan will be sentenced at St Albans Crown Court on Monday

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• Luton
• Murder

Two lovers have been convicted of murder after torturing and killing a pensioner and then returning to the scene of the crime to empty his freezer.

Retired bus conductor Barry Reeve, 67, was found brutally murdered in his home in Norwich, Norfolk, in February last year.

Drug addicts Kelly Barnes, 32, and Jodie Barnes, 31, of Bixley Close, Norwich, who were in a civil partnership, had both denied murder, blaming one another for the killing.

A jury of eight women and four men found them guilty after five hours of deliberation

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• Murder
• Barry Reeve

A double murderer from Essex has failed in his bid to overturn sentences which would see him die in prison.

51-year-old David Oakes was jailed in May for torturing his former partner before shooting her and their 2-year-old daughter at their home in Braintree.

He was told he will never be released from prison. Oakes had sought to overturn his Whole Life order which means he can never apply for release on parole.

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• Essex
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A man stabbed to death in Peterborough has been named by police.

Saulius Grigoravicius, who was 20 and came from Gilpin Street, died from a stab wound to the heart.

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• Peterborough
• Crime

A man on trial for shooting dead a retired army colonel in Hertfordshire is alleged to have confessed to being a hit man and to having a gay affair with the victim.

Robert Workman, 83, was murdered on the doorstep of his home in Furneux Pelham in January 2004.

A jury was told today that Christopher Docherty-Puncheon confessed to killing the former colonel to fellow inmates while he was in prison for the murder of another man - Fred Moss. Docherty-Puncheon has pleaded not guilty to murder at St Albans crown court.

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Police divers searching for the murder weapon used to kill a pensioner have uncovered suspected stolen property.

The divers spent two days searching the River Cam for items stolen from the home of Llywelyn Thomas.

The body of the 76 year old was found at his home in Chittering near Ely ten months ago. It's thought he died during a burglary. The divers recovered several items but its thought some of them may be unrelated to the murder inquiry.

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• Chittering
• Murder

A man has denied murdering a heavily pregnant woman, found fatally injured in a street in Harlow.

Tony McLernon, 24, from Harlow, pleaded not guilty plea to the murder of Eystna Blunnie at the Old Bailey today.

She was found with multiple head and face injuries in Howard Way, Harlow, on June 27.

Miss Blunnie was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital but died later.

McLernon also denied a count of child destruction for allegedly causing 20-year-old Miss Blunnie's unborn baby to die.

He will face trial on February 18 next year.

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• Harlow
• Murder