Pensioner Who Fought Back Killed by Robber

Evening Standard - London (November 18, 2004)

Author: Paul Cheston

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A ROBBER who inflicted fatal injuries on a woman aged 82 is facing life imprisonment.

Hilda Ashdown hit out with her stick and tried to raise the alarm as Elroy Simmonds battered her after barging into the flat where she had lived for 47 years. The attack was one in a series against elderly women around Camberwell from June 2002 until Simmonds's arrest last year.

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Pensioner Who Fought Back Killed by Robber

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