‘I tied up pensioner to get her PIN – but my girlfriend blindfolded her’

A car valeter accused of killing a wealthy recluse before going on a £13,000 spending spree with her bank cards told a court the mother of his child helped him tie up the victim. Susan Hawkey, 71, was found decomposing under a duvet amongst piles of rubbish in her flat in Aylesbury Road, Neasden, northwest London, on 26 September 2022. The retired bank worker had been blindfolded, bound with tape and shoelaces and strangled with a piece of black fabric….