Life for the ashtray killer

A churchgoer who murdered a fellow member of her congregation just hours after they had been praying together has been jailed for life. Carol Campling, 39, walked into a police station after killing her neighbour Mark Smith, 48, and claimed she had found his body at his home in Warren Road, Chingford, east London. Campling then tried to blame the murder on 64-year-old Robert Parsons and the pair stood trial accused of Mr Smith’s murder – but Parsons was cleared…