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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amy-Clare Martin

Joanna Simpson: Family fear for lives as they call for ‘narcissistic’ hammer killer to be kept behind bars

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In a matter of weeks, Joanna Simpson’s family fear they could come face-to-face with the killer who battered her to death and buried her in a pre-dug grave.

Her controlling husband Robert Brown is set to be automatically released, 13 years after he bludgeoned the mother of his two children to death, striking her 14 times with a hammer amid a bitter divorce battle as their children cowered in the playroom.

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