Killer told at first trial: You aren’t violent
A WIFE killer who took the lives of two previous partners was told by a judge at his first trial he was “not a violent man” and had suffered “deep provocation”.
Theodore Johnson was jailed for three years for pushing Yvonne Johnson from a ninth story balcony in 1981 after hitting her with an ashtray and vase.
Johnson, 64, pleaded guilty to strangling Yvonne Bennett and was sent to a secure hospital in 1993 but freed after about two years.
He will be sentenced today after admitting the murder of Angela Best, 51, at home in Islington, North London in December 2016.
Mr Justice Talbot said when he sentenced him for manslaughter in 1982: “You have led a good life.”
Johnson claimed he was abused by wife Yvonne, 25.