31-Year-Old Man Beats Grandmother To Death

Donovan Miller, Tracknews.ng learnt killed 76-year-old Phyllis Grant on March 25, 2021 by attacking her with a vase in her home in Plaistow, east London.

Police arrived the scene after the 31-year-old confessed to raping her body twice, to paramedics.

According to Mail Online, Miller pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility, and a third charge of sexual penetration of a corpse after he was arrested and charged with murder the next day

Prosecutor Caroline Carberry QC said the pleas were acceptable in light of the conclusions of three psychiatrists.

Judge Anthony Leonard, QC adjourned sentencing until Monday, March 28.

Phyllis Grant was a regular churchgoer whose neighbors described as a ‘matriarch of the community’ and a ‘lovely’ woman.

She had only recently been released from the hospital after recovering from Covid prior to her killing in March last year.

Meanwhile, 28-year-old woman, Justina Yakubu was apprehended and arraigned after selling her baby for N120,000 in Yola, Adamawa.

The suspect and a nurse, Esther Romanus were remanded in prison by the Chief Magistrate Court in Yola, over alleged criminal conspiracy, buying or selling of person for immoral purpose.

Justina’s fiancee, Jamilu Suleiman had reported the missing child to the police after his partner came home from an unknown destination and told him the three month old had died