A mother was murdered by her son in unexplained circumstances during a ‘sustained’ and ‘violent’ attack. Stephen Ball, 32, was told he would serve a minimum of 15 years before he can be considered for release after he killed his mother, 55-year-old Suzanne Galvin.
Police were called to the house they shared in Bury after receiving reports from neighbours of a disturbance, Bolton Crown Court heard.
Ball had been heard shouting 'thieving b****' and 'Mum, let me in'. He had called his grandmother who lived in Ireland, claiming that he had discovered his mother injured in the flat and struggling to breathe.
She also alerted the emergency services in England. READ MORE: 'Today, your mother loses both her sons': Brothers jailed over £1.4m conspiracy When the emergency services arrived at the property on Pear Avenue on September 16 last year, they discovered that Ms Galvin had suffered ‘serious injuries’ as a result of a ‘violent assault’.
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