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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matthew Cooper

Burglary victim died from heart attack after being tied up, murder trial told

A pensioner alleged to have been murdered by a burglar who tied him to a chair suffered a “stress-induced” heart attack after his ankles and wrists were bound, a jury has heard.

Birmingham Crown Court was told DNA evidence linked Adris Mohammed to a length of telephone flex and a pair of scissors found near the body of 78-year-old David Varlow.

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