Pensioner stabbed and butchered by former paper boy

Will Batchelor tells how Mathew Hardman killed to fulfil a bizarre desire to be a vampire

FRAIL pensioner Mabel Leyshon died in a brutal and bizarre attack which bore all the signs of a grotesque black magic ritual.

Vampire-obsessed Mathew Hardman stabbed the 90-year-old widow more than 20 times in the back and chest cuts on her hands showed that she had tried to defend herself then moved her from her armchair so he could mutilate her body and rip out her heart.