Joan Roddam murder trial
Patrick Curran will serve a minimum of 18 years for the murder of 74-year-old Joan Roddam.
The pensioner was murdered at her home in Delabole in North Cornwall in 2003.
Summing up expected today in Joan Roddam murder trial
A judge is expected to start summing up in the trial of Patrick Curran, the man accused of murdering Cornish pensioner Joan Roddam.
The 74-year-old's body was found in a field close to her home at Delabole in 2003.
The trial has been highly unusual because Mr Curran has refused to enter a plea.
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