Ex-BA steward gets life for murder

A FORMER British Airways steward who once conned more than £200,000 (€230,000) out of friends and colleagues has been jailed for life for murdering his partner.

Glenn Rycroft was told he must serve at least 25 years in jail for battering Gareth MacDonald over the head with a fire extinguisher.

Rycroft killed him in a Travelodge hotel room at the Heston services on the M4, west of London, in September 2007, as his latest scam was about to be exposed.