Crawley Down murders: Daniel Appleton jailed for life
The judge told him that this was "not a case of insanity". He added: "I sentence you on the basis that you took a new psychoactive substance and under the influence of this committed these murders. "Anyone who takes new psychoactive substances, which are Class A drugs, is interfering with their own mental processes and responsible for the consequences." Daniel Appleton has been found guilty of the murders of his wife and a pensioner in Crawley Down Amy Appleton's mother Linda Remon faced her daughter's killer in court as she described the "uncontrollable distress and despair" her fami...