Crawley Down murders: Daniel Appleton guilty of killing women
He may have taken 25I-NBOMe, a powerful hallucinogenic drug. Mr Corsellis said: “The defendant accepts that he was responsible. His actions led to the death of his wife and a passerby who he had never met before. “This is not a case of what happened, who did it, but a question of why and the lead up to.” The court heard how he dragged Amy out of their home and beat her to death on the driveway. He killed their elderly neighbour Mrs Seagrave by beating her head with her own walking stick when she confronted him. Passing dog walker Janet Spragg said Appleton, at that point cla...