A man who sneaked into his grandmother’s house while she slept and strangled her to gain money from her will has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 26 years, as his mother declared she will struggle to forgive him.
Joshua Powell, 27, killed 96-year-old Emma Finch and then set fire to her home in Mill Road, Liss, Hampshire, in the early hours of May 17 last year “to cover his tracks”.
