Accused killer ‘got a thrill when he tied up victim’

A car valeter accused of murdering a wealthy recluse before going on a £13,000 spending spree with her bank card has denied getting a ‘thrill’ when he tied her up. Susan Hawkey, 71, was found decomposing under a duvet amongst piles of rubbish in her flat in Aylesbury Road, Neasden, northwest London, on 26 September 2022. The retired bank worker had been blindfolded, bound with tape and shoelaces and strangled with a shoelace. Chelsea Grant, 28, who was pregnant at…