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Tom Pilgrim

Killer pilot takes legal action against minister’s decision to block release

A British Airways captain who bludgeoned his wife to death more than 13 years ago has brought a High Court challenge against a Government move to block his automatic release from prison.

Robert Brown fatally beat his 46-year-old millionairess wife Joanna Simpson with a claw hammer in their family home in October 2010, as their two young children cowered in a playroom.

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