Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A cage fighter has been jailed for kicking his ex-partner to death and trying to kill the 15-year-old boy she was having sex with.
Paul Robson, 50, was on the run when he used his steel-toed capped boots on teacher Caroline Kayll, 47, and slashed her buttocks at her home in Linton, Northumberland, last November.
He then turned on the teenager with scissors and a meat cleaver, leaving him traumatised. Robson – who had blackmailed Mrs Kayll about her "inappropriate and unlawful" relationship with the boy – kicked her in the head, may have strangled her during the murder, then sprayed her with ammonia solution.
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