The ‘body in the freezer’ murderer, Sharon Swinhoe, has died in prison after testing positive for Covid-19. The Newcastle killer was serving 25 years for murdering her retired civil servant boyfriend Peter McMahon before plundering his bank account for thousands of pounds.
Alongside accomplice Joseph Collins, 54, Swinhoe was found guilty in 2013 of murdering the grandfather-of-one at her home by gouging his eyes out, Chronicle Live reports.
Newcastle Crown Court heard the pair first threw his body into a dog kennel and then moved him in a suitcase to a specially-bought chest freezer kept in the bedroom of Collins’ flat in Elswick.
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