GUILTY UK - Sandy Seagrave, 76, & Amy Appleton, 32, killed, man hurt at house, Sussex, Dec 2019 *Arrest*

[Alyce]

Finally coming to an end

Today's listing



Details: Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 10:34
Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 11:11
Trial (Part Heard) - Prosecution Closing Speech - 11:36
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 14:00 - 13:02
Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 14:03
Trial (Part Heard) - Prosecution Closing Speech - 14:10
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 15:55 - 14:48
Trial (Part Heard) - DANIEL GARY APPLETON; Defence Closing Speech - 15:05
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 10:00 - 16:14

Hove Trial Centre Crown Court 2 T20207023
daniel gary appleton

 

[Alyce]

Monday December 21



Details: Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 10:15

Hove Trial Centre Crown Court 2

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daniel gary appleton

 

[Alyce]

Whole day of summing up ...


Details: Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 10:15
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 12:25 - 12:08
Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 12:31
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 14:05 - 13:06
Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 14:13
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 15:20 - 15:07
Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 15:20
Trial (Part Heard) - Legal Submissions - 16:33

Hove Trial Centre Crown Court 2
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daniel gary appleton

 

[Alyce]

December 22



Details: Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 09:53
Trial (Part Heard) - Legal Submissions - 11:13
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 11:35 - 11:15
Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 11:41
Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 11:51
Trial (Part Heard) - Jury retire to consider verdict - 12:39

Hove Trial Centre Crown Court 2
T20207023
daniel gary appleton

 

[Alyce]

Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 10:45 - 16:40

 

[Alyce]

Today's listing - not sure why there are legal submissions in the middle of Jury deliberation ?

Details: Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 10:48
Trial (Part Heard) - Jury retire to consider verdict - 10:56
Trial (Part Heard) - Legal Submissions - 14:19
Trial (Part Heard) - Jury retire to consider verdict - 14:36

Hove Trial Centre Crown Court 2
T20207023
daniel gary appleton

 

[Alyce]

Still no verdict, Jury back in tomorrow at 10am.

 

[Alyce]

A man who clubbed two women to death with a metal walking stick has been convicted of murder.

A jury decided Daniel Appleton was in the grip of a psychotic episode after taking powerful synthetic LSD.

Appleton, 38, will be given the mandatory life sentence on January 25 next year.

Victim statements from the families of Amy Appleton and Sandra Seagrave are expected to be heard at the sentencing.



Drug-fuelled mechanic guilty of beating his wife and Good Samaritan who confronted him to death | Daily Mail Online

 

[MajorHoople]

West Sussex man killed his wife and an OAP - and puzzling lab test may hold the key | Daily Mail Online

"Just over a year ago in a suburban village a bomb went off. Its name was Daniel Appleton.

On the morning of Sunday, December 22, the 38-year-old businessman turned into the 'Incredible Hulk' – and two innocent people lost their lives.

One was his wife Amy, a primary school teacher he had married the previous year and with whom he was hoping to start a family. The other was 76-year-old Sandy Seagrave, a widow who was simply in the wrong place at precisely the wrong time.

Out for a walk, the 4ft 9in pensioner saw Appleton attacking his wife as she cowered on the drive outside their home in Crawley Down, West Sussex. Instead of walking by, she bravely intervened, telling him: 'How dare you!'

As if possessed, Appleton, all 20 stone of him, grabbed Miss Seagrave's walking stick and beat her to death.

He did the same to his wife, informing terrified onlookers: 'That's my wife Amy – I killed her'. Going back into his house, he then tried to take his own life.

He denied murder, claiming he had suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown, which triggered a psychotic episode.

But the prosecution insisted that he was high on drugs. After tests for commonly abused narcotics came back negative, hair and nail samples were sent to a laboratory in France. Traces of a substance called 25i-NBOMe were found."

"Yesterday, following a seven-week trial, a jury found Appleton guilty of murdering the two women, delivering a unanimous verdict after two days of deliberations.

He will be sentenced on January 25 but is facing life behind bars."

 

[Alyce]

26 years




https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-55796960