A MAN’S first appearance at Hull Crown Court on a charge of murdering an East Yorkshire hotel landlady has been adjourned for a week to next Friday.

John Heald, 53, of Foljambe Road, Rotherham, is accused of murdering Bei Carter, 49, who was found dead at the Morayland Guest House in Bridlington on July 18, and he has also been charged with ten offences of rape in South Yorkshire on July 13.