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Guilty verdict in attempted murder trial
12:47pm Friday 5th September 2008
THE girlfriend of a man who tried to murder his mother was today convicted of attempting to murder her as well.
The jury at Leeds Crown Court declared Marrion Herrington, 42, of Lochrin Place, off Beckfield Lane, Acomb, guilty of the attempted murder of Anne Smith, now 82, of the same address.
She will be sentenced on September 24 alongside her boyfriend, Mrs Smith's son Barry Armstrong-Smith, 47, of the same address, who admitted attempted murder at an earlier hearing.
Acting detective inspector Guy Wilson said: “It was a calculated and callous attack on an elderly woman as she lay asleep in her bed.”
Full story in The Press tomorrow.
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