'Killer' caught out after confessing to cats

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An alleged killer confessed to his pet cats – unaware police were eavesdropping on his conversation.

David Henton was suspected of battering his partner, Joyce Sutton, to death as she lay sleeping. But police could not prove it, so they bugged his house, a court was told.

He was recorded talking to his pets and apparently let the cat out of the bag.


In one recording, the 72-year-old shouts: 'Bloody woman,' before adding: 'I had to do something about it. I hit my Joyce,' the pros-ecution claims.  ...

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