Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A woman whose sister was the third victim of a man who killed his partners said she is “extremely angry” that her sibling was not protected, an inquest heard.
Theodore Johnson murdered 51-year-old Angela Best, from Manchester, at his north London home on December 15 2016 after she ended their 20-year relationship and met another man.
He beat her with a claw hammer and strangled her with a dressing gown cord after she went to his flat to help him with a passport application.
Johnson had two previous manslaughter convictions after killing his wife in 1981 and another former partner in 1992. In a statement read out by coroner Mary Hassell at St Pancras
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