A City banker has been found guilty of murdering a woman he bludgeoned to death with a pestle on her 29th birthday. Zahid Naseem struck Christina Abbotts 13 times on the back of the head with the large ceramic utensil. She was hit about 30 times in total while housesitting a flat for a friend in Crawley, West Sussex. Worried friends started searching for her when she failed to turn up to her birthday party in South Kensington, west London, the next day. But Christopher Tehrani, prosecuting, dismissed his testimony as “nonsense” and a “pack of lies”, telling Naseem he carried on “relentlessly” during the “savage” attack.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2018 15:35 UTC