An 86-year-old woman died after she and her husband were both subjected to a savage attack, gagged, “hog-tied” and then abandoned to their fate by an intruder searching for £30,000 in cash, a jury has heard.
Vasile Culea denies charges of murder, attempted murder and wounding with intent but admits causing “some harm” to both Freda and Kenneth Walker, who suffered “frankly horrific” injuries at their home in Derbyshire.
