Skip to main content
BBC NEWS / NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Graphics VersionBBC Sport Home
News Front Page | Africa | Americas | Asia-Pacific | Europe | Middle East | South Asia | UK | Business | Health | Science & Environment | Technology | Entertainment | Also in the news | Have Your Say |
UK Contents:  England | Northern Ireland | Scotland | Wales | UK Politics | Education | Magazine

17:50 GMT, Thursday, 2 July 2009 18:50 UK

Pensioner battered wife to death

A Nottinghamshire pensioner who battered his wife to death with a table lamp has been detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.

Arthur Carr, 81, hit his 78-year-old wife Eunice over the head up to eight times, fracturing her skull, Nottingham Crown Court was told.

Carr killed her at their home in Nether Langwith in May 2008.

At an earlier hearing he was deemed unfit to plead and has been given an indefinite hospital order.




E-mail this to a friend
Related to this story:
Murder case man 'unfit to plead' (28 May 09 |  Nottinghamshire )
Man, 81, faces wife murder charge (08 Aug 08 |  Nottinghamshire )

RELATED INTERNET LINKS
HM Courts Service
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites



SEARCH BBC NEWS: 

News Front Page | Africa | Americas | Asia-Pacific | Europe | Middle East | South Asia | UK | Business | Health | Science & Environment | Technology | Entertainment | Also in the news | Have Your Say |
UK Contents:  England | Northern Ireland | Scotland | Wales | UK Politics | Education | Magazine

NewsWatch | Notes | Contact us | About BBC News | Profiles | History

^ Back to top | BBC Sport Home | BBC Homepage | Contact us | Help | ©