A gambling addict who tied up and brutally assaulted a pensioner has been jailed for more than three decades. Vasile Culea admitted he had broken into Kenneth and Freda Walker’s Station Road home in Langwith Junction on Friday, January 14, 2022.
He had heard the couple had a significant amount of money in the home they had shared for more than 60 years. But when the couple either could not, or would not, give Culea the money, he brutally assaulted them. The pair were unable to fight back after he had bound their hands and feet and even placed bags over Freda’s head.
He was seen on CCTV to calmly walk away from the couple’s house where he had left Freda fatally wounded – and Kenneth fighting for his life. The couple were found the following morning by a concerned neighbour. Freda was dead and Kenneth was in a critical condition. Culea’s DNA was found on a cap in the Walker’s house – and officers arrested the 34-year-old on Thursday, January 20, at his home in Church Warsop.
