Gardener ‘raped and murdered widow for £100’

A gardener raped and battered an 89-year-old widow to death as she lay in bed after breaking into her home, a court heard. Reece Dempster, 23, grabbed two bottles of booze and a purse after murdering Dorothy Woolmer, then commented that he ‘only got £100’, it was claimed. Her half-naked body was found wrapped ‘like a mummy’ in a white bedsheet by her sister and best friend on the morning of 4 August last year. The killer had ‘mangled’ Ms…