Cristian Sabou, who intended to burgle house, murdered artist at Christmas in 2013A man who bludgeoned the artist Valerie Graves to death in a botched burglary has been jailed for life. The killing of Graves, 55, days after Christmas in 2013 shocked residents in the village of Bosham in West Sussex. She was found with extensive head injuries in the ground-floor bedroom of a £1.6m property she was house-sitting. Graves sustained extensive head injuries caused by forces similar to those exerted in a road crash, Lewes crown court heard. Bennetts said: “There were extensive injuries to her head.

Source: The Guardian November 11, 2019 11:48 UTC