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WHO BRUTALLY MURDERED OAP I’ll still marry chainsaw killer

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weekend camping until that b****** turned up didn’t we we?”

He wrote to Maria Marianne from jail, saying: “It is the most seriou serious offence and I will be punished accord accordingl­y regardless of what you, I, or anyon anyone else feels. In a way that makes my impri imprisonme­nt easier. I’m not a victim of justice, just I haven’t been ‘f***** around’ by t the system and I do not feel unfairly trea treated. I hope you are not neglecting your health either. Take it a day at a time. I It’s easier for me.” In another lette letter he apologised to Marianne and also to Gerry’s a nf family.

He said: “Not s sure if he had any other friends and I don’t know his family that well. But I’m sure they are enraged and hurt by what happened. But you m must realise that to survive at this th place I cannot delve too deeply into these feelings. I must warn you after going through the initial evidence it doesn’t look good.”

Marianne, who has two daughters living abroad from a previous marriage, said she will never abandon their relationsh­ip despite being abused in the street.

She described how her world has collapsed too and she is now scared to leave her own home.

She said: “I take my two dogs out really early when nobody is about. I know I can’t hide and I have to go out and try to be normal but I have no idea how people will react.”

Two weeks ago Marianne was called an “ugly, fat disgusting b****” while strolling near her home in Sandown.

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She said: “Two women in their 40s recognised me. They started shouting at me and I just turned around with my dog and went back home.” Marianne also said a woman punched her in the face in the street in another worrying incident. She has been advised not to reach out to Mr White’s widow Lee, but says she feels for the family.

Marianne said: “Jonathan has told me so many times he doesn’t know why he did it. He said he wasn’t himself. He said he is really sorry for the effect this has had on me and Gerry’s wife.”

She added: “He would never hurt me. I trust him. I will never understand why he did it but I’m sure he would never do it again.”

The court heard a statement from Lee, which said her husband had not deserved to die. She said: “Knowing what he went through is hard to bear. Life has changed and can never be normal again.”

His son Des said it was a “bitter irony” his father had been killed by someone he had employed at both his businesses and at the communal garden charity.

“Jon was one of many people that dad had helped throughout his life.”

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