Nurse who killed mother with ceramic horse jailed for four


A nurse convicted of killing her mother with an ornamental horse was today jailed for four years. Jennifer Shelton, 56, hit Bertha Martin over the head with the ceramic ornament at their home on 17 June last year. Newcastle crown court heard Mrs Martin, 85, of Cleadon, Sunderland, died of a brain haemorrhage a week later at South Tyneside General hospital. A postmortem examination ...

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