Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Evil clingfilm strangler is jailed for life
A MAN who strangled his fiancee then calmly ordered drugs and ate pizza beside her dead body was yesterday sentenced to life.
Madog Rowlands, 23, who wrapped Lauren Griffiths in clingfilm and binbags, waited for 35 hours before alerting emergency services to the horror in April 2019.
Cardiff crown court heard Rowlands, found guilty of murder in December, had also tried to strangle “vulnerable” Lauren, 21, in March 2018.
But she survived, did not press charges and returned to their home in the city.
Sentencing Rowlands to a minimum 18 years, Judge Daniel Williams called him a “sullen, self-obsessed manipulator” and said his behaviour after murdering Lauren “defies belief ”.
A ROBBER who ripped two rings from a pensioner’s finger during an attack at her home has been caged.
West Higgins targeted the victim, who is in her 70s, last November after claiming she owed him cash for “gardening work”.
The 33-year-old, from Rochester, Kent, admitted the robbery in the town and was given a six-year term at Maidstone crown court on Thursday.
Yesterday, police said: “The offence was exceptionally callous.”
This pretty photo of dusk in the Catalan town of Mura, just outside Barcelona, was taken by Drew Murray in Rhos-on-sea, Conwy.
The 70-year-old says: “We spent a week in this most beautiful small town in Catalonia in 2019. It had always been an ambition of ours to return here since our first visit 26 years earlier.
“I took this photo from our balcony – it was such a tranquil and peaceful place. The 250-year building to the right was used as a garrison in the
Civil War, with Catalonia fiercely defending the town from Franco’s troops. The place is steeped in history and we love it. Hopefully we can get back there soon.”
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