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Post by sadie1263 on Aug 8, 2011 23:09:02 GMT
Ann Browning, 54, was ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years for the ''wicked murder'' of retired postman William Williamson after a judge at Guildford Crown Court ruled she planned the killing for financial gain.
Browning, of Miltons Crescent, Ockford Ridge, Surrey, had pleaded guilty to murder but denied the crime was financially motivated.
She claimed she beat Mr Williamson with a plastic rounders bat in a temper and then buried his body in her garden to cover up her crime. At a hearing last week to determine whether she had planned the murder for financial gain or not, Guildford Crown Court heard Browning beat Mr Williamson repeatedly round the head and body.
She then stripped him naked, bound his legs with a belt, wrapped him in a shower curtain and put him head-first into a grave she had dug in the back garden of the home they shared.
Within days of his death in September 2010 she had transferred £140,000 from their joint account into her personal account.
The court heard when challenged, she told "a number of elaborate lies" about Mr Williamson's whereabouts, including telling police he was in Ireland for a funeral. She also forged documents using his signature to close a Royal Mail account in his name, saying he was moving to a care home on the south coast.
The court heard Mr Williamson had frequently given money to Browning, and had agreed to sell his house to move in with her, so the pair could then buy a property together.
He moved into her house but either on that day or the next, was murdered.
But Browning claimed although she had killed Mr Williamson, it was in a rage, and she planned to turn herself in after her son's wedding, which was in October.
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