Hammer blow hubby avoids jail

(1989) INDIANA brings his dad along for the ride. Harrison Ford and Sean Connery join forces – this time to hunt down the ultimate relic, the Holy Grail. (8.3) A HUBBY, 95, who bludgeoned his wife of 65 years with a lump hammer in an attempted mercy killing has been spared jail.

Denver Beddows hit wife Olive, 88, at their home in Warrington, Cheshire, after she begged him to take her life as she didn’t want to die in a care home or a hospital.

Mrs Beddows suffered multiple skull fractures and lacerations but is making “a good recovery” in hospital.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that the couple’s marriage was “perfect and happy” but both their physical and mental health suffered after Mrs Beddows was involved in a car accident about nine months before the attack on February 4.

Mr Beddows, who pleaded guilty earlier this month to attempted murder, was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for two years.