A 17-stone thug who clubbed two women to death with a metal walking stick has been convicted of murder. A jury heard how Daniel Appleton was in the grip of a psychotic episode after likely taking powerful synthetic LSD.
The car mechanic ranted he was God after beating a defenceless pensioner to death with her own walking stick before using the same metal pole to bludgeon his wife in a monstrous attack last Christmas.
Appleton, 38, was heard shouting: "I could murder you," before dragging his half naked wife out of their home and beating her to death on the driveway.
Appleton told a jury his memory of the savage killings was like a videotape on fast forward. He admitted killing his schoolteacher wife Amy, 32, and defenceless 4'9" pensioner
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