Man who killed wife was ‘fixated on money’

A MAN murdered his wife just days after getting her to sign papers that would make him rich if she died.

Raymond Hoadley, 62, killed disability campaigner Jackie Hoadley, 58, in July last year, a court heard. Prosecutor Caroline

Carberry QC said: “The defendant was fixated on money.”

A handwritten document dated June 21 stated that if either Raymond or Jackie died, “the remaining will be sole owner of all... assets”. The couple’s wealth amounted to almost £1million as well as their marital home, Lewes crown court in East Sussex heard.

Hoadley, of Eastbourne, East Sussex, broke into his estranged wife’s house in the seaside town, to kill her. Sentencing Hoadley to life with a minimum of 26 years, Judge Jeremy Gold QC told him: “Jacqueline Hoadley... dedicated her life to improving the lives of disabled children.

“Society has lost a truly good person who will not be forgotten.”

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LET me introduce the standout candidate for the “Tone Deaf Politician Of The Year” award – Mayor of Colorado City, Texas Tom Boyd, pictured right.

This is the man who told people in his city without power and water for three days, surviving in temperatures hitting -30C that, “No one owes you or your family anything: nor is it local

government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this. Sink or swim.”

Apparently, he’s now resigned such was the backlash against his words of comfort and joy.

And let’s not forget Boris’ little wheeze about building a tunnel between “our wee Province” and

Scotland. Simon Hoare, inset, the Tory MP who chairs Westminster’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee reacted: “The trains could be pulled by an inexhaustible herd of unicorns overseen by stern, officious dodos. A Pushmepullyou could be the senior guard and Puff the Magic Dragon the inspector.” I take it that’s a no then...

Fiddler crabs were filmed in Darwin, Australia, with a pioneering camera system to reveal what the world looks like to them.

They scare easily, so a cameraman had to lie in mud for hours under a sweltering sun.

Sir David explains: “Recent discoveries revealed some animals can see a characteristic of light that we cannot detect. Sunlight contains rays that vibrate in many different planes. In polarised light they vibrate in only one. Light may become polarised when reflected off a shiny surface, such as water. Unlike us, some animals can see polarised light.”

He adds of the new camera: “It combines vertical and horizontal polarisation to show the contrast between polarised and unpolarised light. The team hope to find out how fiddler crabs use polarised light to signal to one another.”

LIGHT TRICK How a crab looks to us and, inset, to each other

Just like fiddler crabs, these shrimps also use polarised light.

Using the specialist camera, the team dived on the Great Barrier Reef to see what they could pick up.

Sir David says: “As the shrimp turns the polarised camera shows its tail has a shimmering fringe, invisible in normal light. This is the first time we’ve been able to do this with this very special camera. It’s a first glimpse into a world of light we’re only becoming aware of.”

Light on the ocean floor is unpolarised and the shrimps use polarisation to stand out. They use the light to signal to deter intruders and attract mates.

PRISON Raymond Hoadley