Handyman gets 12 years for killing of church leader Nelly Akomah

A Portuguese handyman who killed a beloved church leader when he burgled her home after working on her kitchen has been jailed for 12 years. Grandmother Nelly Akomah, 76, tried to confront Hugo Da Silva Pires, 29, and fell down the stairs as she struggled with him in the raid on her £500,000 house. Da Silva Pires took her phone and wallet at from the house Ladbrook Road near Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park on 20 June 2023. He and his…