Burglar ‘beat pensioner to death and torched her body’

A career burglar bludgeoned a church-going pensioner to death and set her body alight after she bravely tried to fight him off, a court heard. Aaron Fyle, 29, allegedly murdered Eulin Hastings, 74, after forcing his way into her home in Birchanger Road, South Norwood, south London, on 10 January 2017. Fyle then set a pack of napkins alight and threw them into the stairwell where the devout Christian lay dying, jurors heard. He then ‘casually’ invaded a second home…