A pensioner was brutally mutilated and murdered in her own home by a police informant in a horrifying bid to extract her bank details.
Kevin Morrison, in a heinous act of violence, tortured and killed 74-year-old widow Alice Rye at her Wirral residence back in 1996.
Delving into the region's dark criminal past, the Liverpool Echo revisited this appalling historic offence, revealing the terrible nature of Morrison's crime and his attempts to cover his own tracks.
Morrison - who was living in east Cheshire - bound, gagged, and sexually assaulted Rye in Spital, then stabbed her in the chest.
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