A MAN WHO STRANGLED HIS GIRLFRIEND TO DEATH WITH A

A MAN WHO STRANGLED HIS GIRLFRIEND TO DEATH WITH A TV CORD AND
GAVE HIMSELF UP IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS WAS JAILED FOR THREE YEARS AT
THE OLD BAILEY ON FRIDAY.

MARK SUMMER, 31, OF SEYMOUR TERRACE, PENGE, HAD DENIED
MURDERING HIS LIVE-IN LOVER, 22-YEAR-OLD ADROMEDA JAMES ON JANUARY
14,THIS YEAR BUT ADMITTED MANSLAUGHTER.

THE RECORDER OF LONDON SIR JAMES MISKIN, QC, SAID: ‘I AM
SATISFIED THAT SHE WANTED THE RELATIONSHIP TO END.

YOU FELT YOU HAD
BEEN USURPED IN HER HEART AND MIND’.

THE JUDGE SAID A PSYCHIATRIC REPORT REVEALED SUMMERS WAS
EMOTIONALLY INSECURE, AND THAT HE WAS ESPECIALLY SENSITIVE TO THE
THREAT OF REJECTION.

‘YOU WERE NO LONGER THE MASTER OF YOU’RE MIND WHEN YOU
STRANGLED HER TO DEATH.

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‘YOU ARE ESPECIALLY VUNERABLE TO THE SORT OF PROVOCAION TO
WHICH YOU WERE EXPOSED.

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MR ALLAN GREEN, PROSECUTING, HAD TOLD THE JURY THE COUPLE’S
‘STORMY’ RELATIONSHIP ENDED IN DEATH TWO HOURS AFTER A VISIT TO THEIR
SOCIAL WORKER.

MISS JAMES HAD LEFT HIM BUT AGREED TO VISIT A
SOCIAL WORKER TO SORT OUT THEIR PROBLEMS.

ON THE LAST VISIT THEY HAD
APPEARED TO BE RELAXED AND GETTING ON BETTER.

BUT SUMMERS THEN WENT TO MISS JAMES FLAT IN COMO ROAD, FOREST
HILL, AND KILLED HER.

HE COULD GIVE NO REASON WHY.

‘THERE WAS NO ARGUMENT’, HE TOLD
DETECTIVES.

ENDS.

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