Rapist faces life in jail for pensioner's murder

A convicted rapist who abducted and murdered a pensioner on her way home from church will discover today if he is ever to be freed again.

A convicted rapist who abducted and murdered a pensioner on her way home from church will discover today if he is ever to be freed again.

Farm labourer Trevor Hamilton, 23, is to be sentenced for battering retired librarian Attracta Harron around the head with a hatchet or axe before burying her naked body in a shallow grave near his family home in Sion Mills, Co Tyrone.

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