Hammer killer made off with 85-year-old widow’s diamond ring

Romford

A handyman bludgeoned an 85-year-old woman to death with a hammer and told police if he had not killed her ‘someone else would have got it’, a court heard. Paul Prause, 65, murdered retired seamstress Rosina Coleman at her home in Ashmour Gardens, Romford, Essex, on 15 May then staged the scene to make it look like a burglary. Prause made off with Mrs Coleman’s expensive diamond ring after the savage killing and hid it in a garden shed. He…

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