Jean Ritchie

Dena wasted no time going to see his boss at the newspaper office to claim his £36,000 death-in-service benefit, turning up the same day. She was described as ‘cold and unemotional’

At first, he said, he was shocked to find she had lost her sparkle, but when she told him that her first husband beat her up and stalked her, and her second husband had died (this time she said from an overdose of steroids), he felt sorry for her. This, compounded by the fact that she said she was being treated for terminal cancer of the kidney, and had just weeks to live

Halifax Building Society

Lee Wyatt

Sean the Leprechaun

multi-million-pound

(the documentation needed to work in the States)

women are far more likely to be killed by their husbands, partners, lovers or ex-lovers than by a stranger.

Love spawns some of the greatest higher feelings, but it also leads to the most debased acts of vengeance.

That does not mean women don’t kill: they do, and when they do it is most likely to be someone they have been involved with, romantically and sexually.