Wealthy widow ‘befriended by killer’

A killer fled the scene of a brutal murder by ‘Boris Bike’ after beating a wealthy widow to death and leaving her to burn in a house fire, a court heard. William Kydd, 54, had befriended frail 73-year-old Carole Harrison and may have begun a relationship with her just weeks before her death, jurors heard. Tom Little, prosecuting, said: ‘It was a brutal murder, the prosecution say, perpetrated by the defendant on a vulnerable 73-year-old who lived alone. ‘It took…