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A parish councillor was shot and then beaten to death by a neighbour with mental health issues who was convinced the victim was a spy working for Russian president Vladimir Putin to spread Covid-19, an inquest has heard. Alex Sartain, 34, used a home-made double-barrelled shotgun to shoot James Nash, 42, in the front garden of his cottage in Upper Enham, on August 5, 2020. He then repeatedly stamped on the head of the children's book author, causing him fatal head injuries, the Winchester inquest was told. Mr Sartain himself died later that day when he crashed his motorcycle while be...

A children's author was shot and then beaten to death by a neighbour with mental health issues, after he became convinced the victim was a spy working for Russian president Vladimir Putin to spread Covid-19, an inquest has heard. James Nash, 42, was shot in the front garden of his home in the hamlet of Upper Enham, near Andover in Hampshire at 3pm on August 5, 2020. His neighbour Alex Sartain, 34, used a home-made double-barrelled shotgun and then repeatedly stamped on the parish councillor's head, causing him fatal head injuries, the Winchester inquest was told. Mr Sartain himself died late...

BBC News Published image captionJames Nash was described as a "kind-hearted individual and a proactive parish councillor" A man with a long history of mental illness shot a children's author after becoming wrongly convinced he was a Russian spy, an inquest has heard. James Nash, 42, was attacked in his garden by his next-door neighbour in Upper Enham, Hampshire, on 5 August and died three days later. The gunman, Alex Sartain, died in a motorbike crash while being pursued by police on the same day. The coroner recorded a conclusion that Mr Nash was unlawfully killed. Mr Nash wrote and illus...

Last modified on Mon 19 Apr 2021 15.37 EDT A children’s author and parish councillor died after a neighbour with mental health issues shot him in the face and stamped on his head, believing he worked for Vladimir Putin and was to blame for the spread of Covid-19, an inquest heard. James Nash, 42, was repairing the garden well outside his thatched countryside cottage when his neighbour Alex Sartain confronted him and accused him of spying on him. Sartain, whose father unsuccessfully asked for help for his son’s mental health problems weeks before, discharged a homemade shotgun into N...

JULY IN JULY, the grieving mother of a woman who was murdered in her home by her estranged husband opened up about the heartache. She said her family was torn apart, one year on from her daughter’s death. Thirty-year-old Lucy-Anne Rushton was forced to swallow her wedding ring before she was violently killed by “jealous and controlling” Shaun Dyson, at her house in Suffolk Road on Sunday, June 23, 2019. Dyson, of Anna Valley, was sentenced to a minimum of 17 years in prison, with the judge condemning him for the “violent and brutal” attack on his former partner. Lucy’s m...