A TERRIFIED 76-YEAR-OLD GRANNY WAS TRAPPED IN HER

A TERRIFIED 76-YEAR-OLD GRANNY WAS TRAPPED IN HER LIVING

ROOM BY THE BODIES OF HER DAUGHTER AND GRANDAUGHTER AFTER A KNIFEMAN

RAMPAGED THROUGH HER HOUSE, A JURY WAS TOLD ON THURSDAY.

DISTRAUGHT PENSIONER KITTY POPE COULD NOT ESCAPE FROM

HER FLAT BECAUSE HER TWO LOVED ONES WERE SLUMPED DYING

AGAINST THE DOOR, THE OLD BAILEY HEARD.

THE TRAGIC MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WERE SAVAGELY STABBED WITH A

ONE FOOT LONG CARVING KNIFE WHEN FREDERICK BEESLEY, 43, WENT

BESERK, SAID MR JULIAN BEVAN, PROSECUTING.

HE HAD BEEN JILTED BY HIS GIRLFRIEND, MRS JANET HARRIS, A

41-YEAR-OLD DIVORCEE.

HE WAS ‘BESOTTED’ WITH HER, THE COURT HEARD.

HE BURST INTO THE HOUSE IN FINLAY RD, FULHAM, GRABBED A

CARVING KNIFE AND STABBED TO DEATH MRS HARRIS AND HER DAUGHTER,

JAYNE, 18, A PRINCESS OF WALES LOOK-ALIKE, THE COURT HEARD.

MR BEVAN SAID: ‘HE DID IT BECAUSE HE WAS A REJECTED LOVER.

THE

MOMENT HAD COME WHEN HIS TORMENT TURNED TO VIOLENCE.

‘

WHEN THE HORRIFYING ATTACK BEGAN GRANDMOTHER MRS POPE WAS

WATCHING THE TV PROGRAMME ‘THIS IS YOUR LIFE.

‘

BEESLEY HAD LET HIMSELF INTO THE HOUSE AND MADE HIS WAY TO HIS

ESTRANGED LOVER’S FLAT ON THE FIRST FLOOR.

‘HE WAS STONE COLD SOBER,’

SAID MR BEVAN.

‘MRS POPE HEARD SCREAMS FROM UPSTAIRS.

THEY WERE GETTING

LOUDER AND LOUDER,’ COUNSEL ADDED.

SHE DASHED TO THE FLAT AND WAS CONFRONTED BY THE SIGHT OF HER

GRANDDAUGHTER SITTING IN AN ARMCHAIR WITH BLOOD ON HER HAIR AND FACE.

BEESLEY WAS STANDING OVER HER AND SHE WAS CRYING HYSTERICALLY, THE

JURY WAS TOLD.

MR BEVAN SAID BEESLEY LAUNCHED AN ATTACK UPON THE GRANNY,

KNOCKING HER TO THE FLOOR AND STRIKING HER HEAD.

BUT MRS POPE MANAGED

TO ESCAPE.

SHE RAN DOWNSTAIRS AND LOCKED HERSELF IN HER LIVING ROOM.

SHE CALLED THE POLICE AND THEN WAITED.

‘SHE HEARD NO MORE NOISE.

SHE WAS EXPECTING THE POLICE TO

COME.

SHE WENT TO GO OUT OF THE HOUSE BUT FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO GET

INTO HER HALLWAY.

THE REASON WAS THAT HER DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER

WERE SITTING OUTSIDE WITH THEIR LEGS BLOCKING THE DOOR,’ SAID MR

BEVAN.

HE ADDED:’SHE DID NOT REALISE THE SERIOUSNESS OF WHAT HAD

HAPPENED.

SHE WAS CONFUSED.

‘

WHEN POLICE ARRIVED THEY FOUND THE TWO WOMEN UNCONSCIOUS.

THEY

WERE RUSHED TO HOSPITAL BUT DIED SOON AFTER ARRIVAL.

DETECTIVES QUICKLY TRACED BEESLEY TO HIS HOME IN BENDEMEER

ROAD, PUTNEY.

AT FIRST HE DENIED THE KILLINGS BUT LATER ADMITTED

BEING RESPONSIBLE, IT WAS ALLEGED.

HE WAS SAID TO HAVE TOLD DETECTIVES:’THIS WHOLE THING IS

TERRIBLE.

IT WAS DESPICABLE.

I FEEL SICK INSIDE.

‘

THEN HE HELD HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS AND SAID:’IF ONLY YOU KNEW

HOW MUCH I LOVED THAT WOMAN.

I LOVED HER MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

‘

MR BEVAN SAID BEESLEY’S FLATMATE HAD SEEN HIM IN A PUB SOON

AFTER THE KILLINGS AND DESCRIBED HIM AS BEING ‘IN GOOD FORM AND

LAUGHING.

‘

THE COURT HEARD THAT MRS HARRIS HAD BEEN BEESLEY’S CHILDHOOD

SWEETHEART.

BUT THEY HAD GONE THEIR SEPARATE WAYS.

LATER BOTH HAD

UNSUCCESSFUL MARRIAGES AND DIVORCED.

THEY MET UP AGAIN AND LIVED

TOGETHER FOR SIX YEARS.

MR BEVAN SAID THEIR RELATIONSHIP WAS STORMY AND PUNCTUATED BY

BEESLEY’S DRUNKEN VIOLENCE.

FINALLY MRS HARRIS SAID SHE WANTED

NOTHING MORE TO DO WITH HIM.

BUT HE WAS ‘DESPERATE’ TO RENEW HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HER.

MR

BEVAN SAID THE JURY WOULD READ LETTERS HE WROTE TO MRS HARRIS

PLEADING WITH HER TO GO BACK TO HIM.

BEESLEY, PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO THE DOUBLE MURDER OF MRS

HARRIS, A SOCIAL SERVICES RECEPTIONIST, AND HER SHOP ASSISTANT

DAUGHTER IN NOVEMBER, LAST YEAR.

.

HE FURTHER DENIED WOUNDING MRS POPE WITH INTENT TO CAUSE HER

SERIOUS HARM.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES.

MFL

CENTRAL NEWS SERVICE, 33 GOODGE ST, LONDON, W.

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OLD BAILEY

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