A DRIVING INSTRUCTOR WHO BRUTALLY BATTERED TO DEAT

A DRIVING INSTRUCTOR WHO BRUTALLY BATTERED TO DEATH THE

‘NAGGING’ BOSS HE SECRETLY LOVED WAS JAILED FOR LIFE AT THE OLD

BAILEY ON MONDAY.

JOHN MCGUIRE, 44, SAVAGELY BATTERED THE MARRIED WOMAN WITH A

GARDEN SPADE 10 TIMES FLATTENING THE SIDE OF HER FACE, SAID MR ALAN

SUCKLING, QC, PROSECUTING.

THE RECORDER OF LONDON, SIR JAMES MISKIN, QC, DESCRIBED

MCGUIRE AS ‘A MENACE.

‘

DOCTORS REPORTS REVEALED THAT HE WAS SUFFERING FROM A

PERSONALITY DISORDER.

AFTER HIS ARREST MCGUIRE TOLD DETECTIVES: ‘SHE KEPT NAGGING

ME.

I JUST LOST CONTROL AND HIT HER.

‘

BUT IN A LETTER FOUND IN HIS POSSESSION, ADDRESSED TO HIS

BOSS, MRS CHRISTINE JACKSON, 35, HE SAID: ‘I LOVE YOU IN A WAY NOBODY

CAN UNDERSTAND.

I WOULD FIGHT THE WORLD FOR YOU.

‘

THE COURT HEARD THAT MCGUIRE HAD MET MRS JACKSON IN 1980.

THEY

HAD STARTED A DRIVING SCHOOL TOGETHER BUT IT FAILED.

AT THE TIME OF

THE MURDER MCGUIRE WAS WORKING FOR A FIRM RUN BY MRS JACKSON AND HER

HUSBAND, THE BASE DRIVING SCHOOL AT RAYNES PARK STATION.

.

MRS JACKSON HAD FORMERLY WORKED AS A PERSONNEL OFFICER FOR THE

DAILY MAIL NEWSPAPER.

MR SUCKLING SAID THAT MCGUIRE HAD SECRETLY WORSHIPPED MRS

JACKSON AND HE WOULD CALL HER DAY AND NIGHT.

BUT ON JULY 3 LAST YEAR HE WENT TO HER HOME AT ELM WALK,

RAYNES PARK, INTENT ON VIOLENCE.

HE STRUCK HER TEN TIMES WITH A

GARDEN SPADE.

‘HER SKULL WAS FRACTURED AND THE LEFT SIDE OF HER FACE

FLATTENED,’ SAID MR SUCKLING.

‘PARTS OF HER EAR WERE MISSING AND

EVERY BONE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HER FACE WAS BROKEN.

‘

HE LATER TOLD A FRIEND: ‘SHE HAD BEEN NAGGING ME ALL WEEK.

SHE JUST WOULDN’T STOP.

‘

MCQUIRE, OF BUSHEY MANSIONS, GRAND DRIVE, WIMBLEDON, WAS

ACQUITTED OF MURDER AT HIS TRIAL LAST APRIL BUT CONVICTED OF

MANSLAUGHTER.

HE WAS THEN REMANDED IN CUSTODY FOR REPORTS UNTIL

SENTENCE WAS PASSED ON MONDAY.

WHEN THE JURY CLEARED HIM OF MURDER, ANGRY RELATIVES OF THE

DEAD WOMAN SHOUTED FROM THE PUBLIC GALLERY: ‘HE (MCGUIRE) HAS FOOLED

YOU.

‘

ONE OF THEM YELLED AT THE SHAKING MCGUIRE: ‘YOU’RE A DEAD

MAN.

‘

MCGUIRE HAD TOLD THE JURY HE COULD NOT REMEMBER HOW OR WHY

HE KILLED HER.

HE CLAIMED HE WAS SUFFERING FROM DIMINISHED

RESPONSIBILITY AT THE TIME AND HAD ‘SNAPPED’ WHEN SHE HAD – ACCORDING

TO HIM – NAGGED HIM ABOUT A CHEQUE.

END.