Pensioner attacked wife with walking stick

A ‘gravely ill’ pensioner used a walking stick to brutally attack his wife of 54 years, a court heard. Antonio Oliva, 77, had been in hospital for months before discharging himself and forcing his way inside his wife Margarhetta’s Shoreditch home, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard. Prosecutors allege Oliva pinned his wife to the floor and clawed at her eyes before strangling her and hitting her with his walking stick. He pulled out ‘clumps’ of her hair and gripped her three…