Happily married mechanic, 38, who took super strength LSD n-bomb and beat his teacher wife and a hero pensioner to death during a psychotic episode before doing a victory speech to neighbours outside their £370,000 house is jailed for life
Daniel Appleton, 38, has been jailed for more than 26 years for double murder
Car mechanic beat his wife Amy Appleton, 32, and OAP Sandy Seagrave to death
He ranted he was God as he murdered pair outside Crawley Down home in 2019
Court heard that Appleton was in grip of psychotic episode after taking LSD
Appleton jailed for life with a minimum of 26 years for the double murder
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Sussex man who murdered his wife and a passerby is jailed for life
A Sussex man who murdered his wife and a passerby who tried to save her has been jailed for life - with a minimum of 26 and a half years.
Monday, 25th January 2021, 5:25 pm
Daniel Appleton, 38, was in the grip of a psychotic episode brought on by his use of a form of synthetic LSD, known as an NPS, when he snatched a metal walking stick from passerby 76-year-old Sandra Seagrave.
An eye witness said he looked like the Incredible Hulk as he clubbed her to death with it before using the same stick to beat his wife Amy to death on the driveway of their home in Hazel Way, Crawley Down, just before Christmas 2019.
THE families of two murdered women say it is still impossible to understand why they were killed. Amy Appleton, 32, was dragged out of her home in Hazel Way, Crawley Down by her husband Daniel Appleton. He attacked her and neighbour Sandy Seagrave, 76, tried to intervene. But, to the horror of witnesses, Appleton took Mrs Seagrave’s walking stick and beat her to death with it before turning the weapon on his wife. Witnesses said the 20-stone former car garage owner “looked like the Incredible Hulk” as he carried out the attack in his boxer shorts shortly before Christmas last year.