Convicted double-killer battered neighbour to death while on licence, jury told
A convicted double-killer released into the community on licence bludgeoned his elderly next-door neighbour to death with a coffee table, a murder trial jury has heard.
Lawrence Bierton, 63, who denies the 2021 murder of Pauline Quinn, 73, on the grounds of diminished responsibility, was sentenced to life at Sheffield Crown Court in 1996 for the murders of two elderly sisters.
Jurors at were told Bierton was first released on licence in 2017 but was recalled to prison in 2018 for “repeated failures to address his behaviour” and drug
