Don't miss a thing by signing up to the MyOldham newsletter here A builder has been jailed for life after fatally striking his ex 19 times with an axe upon finding out she was selling their family home.
Stephen Booth, 64, plotted to kill his ex-wife, healthcare assistant Susan Booth, 62, after learning through his solicitor the family home he had built in Shaw, near Oldham, was to be sold for more than £450,000 within days.
He lay in wait at the home they had shared until their split three years earlier and struck her from behind with an axe when she came home from a shift at Royal Oldham Hospital.
She suffered catastrophic injuries and died a short time after being rushed back to the hospital where she worked. She was struck 19 times on
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