Opera house killer ‘needed a cuddle’

A cross-dresser who battered his cheating fiancee to death in the shower had threatened to commit suicide before he killed her, a court heard. Royal Opera House graphic designer Roderick Deakin-White, 38, left Australian secretary Amy Parsons, 34, with ‘horrific injuries’ after clubbing her with a metal bar in their Whitechapel flat. The couple had been together eight years before Ms Parsons grew unhappy with Deakin-White’s cross-dressing fetish and began sleeping with colleague James Saunders, jurors heard. She was planning…