‘Film director was addicted to powerful opiates’

A film director who was stabbed to death in her apartment was addicted to powerful opiates and living in squalor, a court heard today (mon). Nancy Pexton, 70, is accused of slitting the throat of Jennifer Abbott, 69, and gagging her with adhesive tape at her north London home last June. Pexton allegedly took Ms Abbott’s diamond encrusted Rolex and locked the victim’s large Corgi dog, Prince, in the bathroom where he survived without food for three days. Ms Abbott,…