Coffee mug killer faces long stretch

A lodger who lived with the decomposing body of his landlady for a month after battering her with a Cadburys’ Creme Egg coffee mug is facing years in jail. Kristian Smith, 43, shoved clothing up against 52-year-old Antoinette Donnegan’s bedroom door to mask the smell of her rotting corpse as he used her credit cards and pawned her jewellery. Smith told his girlfriend he was ‘going down to the fires with old Lucifer’ after the killing. Ms Donnegan had suffered…