Not content with using ?15,000-20,000 of her grandmother’s money to fund cosmetic work on her teeth and hair, Joanne Hussey, 33, beat her frail grandmother, Annie Garbutt to death with a spade.
Social Services had decided that Mrs Garbutt, 76, a widow, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, needed residential care. But her greedy granddaughter was mortified at the thought of her inheritance being spent on it.