Pensioner beat his wife to death believing she had hookworm

A pensioner beat his wife to death with a saucepan because he believed she was infected with hookworm and wanted to go to the haidresser’s, the Old Bailey heard. Brian James, 81, is accused of murdering his 81-year-old wife Carol James in their bungalow in Dunwich Road, Bexleyheath, southeast London, on 15 November. Police were called to the home at 8.22am and found Mrs James with fatal injuries and she died at the scene. James is charged with murder but…