Lisa Brown beat her mother to death over child custody battle.
source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6735733.ece
Lisa Brown , 21, was found guilty of battering her mother, aged 51, to death and dumping her body.
It was an amateur, bungling murder, carried out with passion and intense violence. Brown launched what the prosecution described as “a night-time surprise assault” at her mother’s home in rural Ayrshire, striking the former health visitor 60 times with a blunt instrument thought to be a torch.
She was helped by her boyfriend, John Wilson, 25, who was convicted of the lesser charge of culpable homicide after a six-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow
Mrs Brown had started legal proceedings over custody of a young child, which Lisa Brown disputed. When she heard that the child was to remain with Mrs Brown, the younger woman resorted to violence. The trial was told that, on the evening of October 18, Brown and Wilson took a train to Mrs Brown’s cottage and attacked her outside. She suffered 49 blows on her head and neck and died from “blunt force trauma”. It was such a vicious assault that Mr Elliot said he was unable to recognise his sister when called to identify her.
The court heard evidence that Mrs Brown was still alive when she was trussed up, placed in the boot of her own Ford Focus and dumped in a nearby burn. The killers were forced to abandon the car after Brown, who did not hold a licence, got it stuck in the verge. The couple then spent the night in the dead woman’s bed.
Initially Brown and Wilson stuck to their “pact” that Mrs Brown had not been home that night. During the trial, however, they blamed each and Wilson, who gave evidence against his former girlfriend, said that she alone had committed the murder.
Wilson claimed his lover warned him that if he went to police he would not see the child she was expecting. Lisa Brown gave birth in April while on remand in Cornton Vale prison.
It was an amateur, bungling murder, carried out with passion and intense violence. Brown launched what the prosecution described as “a night-time surprise assault” at her mother’s home in rural Ayrshire, striking the former health visitor 60 times with a blunt instrument thought to be a torch.
She was helped by her boyfriend, John Wilson, 25, who was convicted of the lesser charge of culpable homicide after a six-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow
Mrs Brown had started legal proceedings over custody of a young child, which Lisa Brown disputed. When she heard that the child was to remain with Mrs Brown, the younger woman resorted to violence. The trial was told that, on the evening of October 18, Brown and Wilson took a train to Mrs Brown’s cottage and attacked her outside. She suffered 49 blows on her head and neck and died from “blunt force trauma”. It was such a vicious assault that Mr Elliot said he was unable to recognise his sister when called to identify her.
The court heard evidence that Mrs Brown was still alive when she was trussed up, placed in the boot of her own Ford Focus and dumped in a nearby burn. The killers were forced to abandon the car after Brown, who did not hold a licence, got it stuck in the verge. The couple then spent the night in the dead woman’s bed.
Initially Brown and Wilson stuck to their “pact” that Mrs Brown had not been home that night. During the trial, however, they blamed each and Wilson, who gave evidence against his former girlfriend, said that she alone had committed the murder.
Wilson claimed his lover warned him that if he went to police he would not see the child she was expecting. Lisa Brown gave birth in April while on remand in Cornton Vale prison.
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