Three men have appeared in court today accused of separate murders as communities across Merseyside reel from a spate of killings.
Four murder investigations have been launched in the region in the last week alone, with arrests made in a number of cases. This morning, men accused of carrying out two of those murders were brought before courts. Mark Wheeler was appeared before magistrates in one court accused of murdering Karen Wheeler in their Birkenhead home on May 11.
Officers rushed to a flat block on Vittoria Close in Birkenhead at around 7.15pm on Thursday, May 12, following reports of a concern for the welfare of a woman. Once police and paramedics arrived they found Karen, 62, and she died at the scene. Wheeler, 51, was not invited to enter a plea to the murder charge and his case was sent to Liverpool Crown Court later this week.
