Killer shaved her head to appear like ex-soldier sufferer and danced bare in road
This is the chilling face of Sarah Hansford, a drug addict who brutally murdered an ex-soldier in his own residence in Nottingham.
The 44-year-old was caught on CCTV dancing bare on the street after killing Barry Spooner, a well-loved pensioner, and later disguised herself as him to withdraw cash from his checking account, NottinghamshireLive reported.
The listening to was instructed how Mr Spooner, 74, took pity on the defendant in 2020 and allowed her to remain at his flat in Gladstone Street, Forest Fields the place, in late May this yr, she inflicted greater than 30 stab wounds on his physique, pushed it into the cellar and coated it in cardboard.
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The subsequent morning she was seen dumping luggage of garbage in a bin which was collected by council refuse employees and later that very same day she tried to rob a neighborhood retailer armed with a knife. Hansford took benefit of Mr Spooner’s kindness over a number of years, exploiting his generosity to fund her drug behavior, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
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In a heart-wrenching assertion, Darren McMahon, Spooner’s nephew, mentioned: “Barry would go out of his way to help anyone and I will forever be haunted at the thought of his last moments and tortured knowing he would have been unable to defend himself. I will never forgive his killer in the way she has dehumanised him in the most vile way.
In the days that followed Hansford, of Coalville, Leicestershire, twice visited his bank dressed as a man and armed with paperwork to withdraw money. For the next two weeks, she carried on living at the property knowing her victim’s body was in the cellar.
After being arrested and charged, she later told a psychiatrist “I knew what I used to be doing, I did it, I’m not sorry, he deserved to die,” claiming she had earlier found he had paedophilic tendencies and that she had been raped as a toddler.
(Image: Jake Brigstock / Nottinghamshire Live)
Jailing her for all times with a minimal of 22-and-a-half years till she is eligible for parole, Judge Nirmal Shant KC mentioned: “No one else knows how he really met his death and your accounts have been inconsistent.
“You later mentioned you can not keep in mind what number of instances you stabbed him, you tried to drown him and strangle him and what did you do afterwards? You unceremoniously dumped his physique within the cellar and the day after you probably did that, you danced bare on the street.
“In his victim impact statement, his nephew said ‘he spent those last minutes on this earth with a vile person, the very worst of humanity’, that’s the impact you’ve had on the family of Mr Spooner. You told lie after lie to get your hands on that money.”
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