Woman, 41, jailed for murdering neighbour with spade after garden fence row
Debby Foxwell had a ‘visceral hatred’ for former Liberal Democrat councillor 64-year-old Louise Lotz
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Kirsty Burdett, left, and her partner Davey Everson, right, have been found guilty by a jury at St Albans Crown Court. Credit: South Beds News Agency A man who violently shook and threw a baby in a fit of rage has been convicted of murder. Davey Everson, 23, was found guilty at St Albans Crown Court of the murder of three-month-old Millie Rose Burdett, who died in hospital in January 2019. Millie Rose s mother, and Everson s partner, Kirsty Burdett, was also in court and she was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of her daughter. Millie Rose suffered a catalogue of injuries during her short life, including 23 broken bones, and she was never able to recover from a bleed on the brain she received in December 2018 after being shook by Everson at Burdett s home in Rickmansworth.
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image captionDebby Foxwell has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her neighbour
A woman who bludgeoned her neighbour to death with a garden spade has been sentenced to life in prison.
Debby Foxwell had a visceral hatred for Louise Lotz - a hoarder she blamed for her inability to sell her home in Welwyn Garden City, the court heard.
She killed her after an argument in what Judge Kay described as a shocking and senseless attack.
The 41-year-old must serve a minimum of 21 years in prison.
Foxwell denied murder but had admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility. She was convicted of murder by a jury at St Albans Crown Court in February last year.
Welwyn Garden City woman brutally murdered neighbour with a spade after fight over garden fence
Debby Foxwell repeatedly struck her neighbour over the head in a sustained, brutal and merciless attack outside their homes
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Debby Foxwell was jailed for a minimum of 21 years today (Image: Herts Police)
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Ryan Kirk, from Letchworth, has been sentenced to eight years detention after being found guilty of rape.
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A teenage rapist from Letchworth has been sentenced to eight years’ detention after being found guilty of orally raping two girls.
Ryan Kirk, 19, of Highover Road, was 18 when he overpowered a 13-year-old girl in a spinney.
St Albans Crown Court heard he walked off and shouted ”f you. That’s your early birthday present”. On other occasions he had molested the young girl.
When news of that attack came out on social media a 17-year-old girl bravely came forward to say he had orally raped her 10 months earlier.