Pensioner ‘murdered wife of more than 50 years’

A spurned husband stabbed and bludgeoned his estranged wife to death after she left him for someone new after more than 50 years together, a court heard. David Thomas, 74, allegedly murdered Sheila Thomas, 69, at their former matrimonial home in Herne Hill, southeast London, when she turned up to collect some belongings. She had called an end to the marriage around a month earlier, telling her new partner that life with Thomas had ‘been hell’ and describing how she…