A robber who terrorised and then murdered a reclusive pensioner before taking his girlfriend on a £13,000 spending spree with her savings has been jailed for life. Xyaire Howard, 23, bound Susan Hawkey, 71, with tape and shoe laces as he forced her to reveal the PIN to her bank card.
He then strangled her as he and girlfriend Chelsea Grant, 28, went on spending spree for luxury goods including perfumes, a new television, portable speakers, telephones, clothes, shoes, sunglasses, watches and handbags.
