BA pilot who bludgeoned wife to death with claw hammer loses bid for freedom | W5589VM | 2024-03-01 11:08:01
A British Airways captain who bludgeoned his estranged wife to demise 13 years in the past won't be free of prison after dropping a High Court battle.
Robert Brown, 60, beat Joanna Simpson, 46, to dying with 14 blows of a claw hammer to the top in their family house in Windsor on Halloween 2010.
Their two youngsters, including then nine-year-old Katie, might hear 'banging' from their playroom in the course of the attack.
He bundled the B&B owner's physique into the boot of his automotive and drove her to a pre-dug grave in Windsor Nice Park.
The pilot then returned to the home, disconnected the telephone, removed the CCTV and loaded his youngsters into the automotive for the drive to his new associate's home.
His son asked if he was 'taking Mummy to hospital' through the drive.
Brown pled responsible to manslaughter with diminished duty, avoiding a murder conviction in 2011 having claimed he suffered from a stress-related 'adjustment disorder'.
In a letter to the trial decide, Katie stated: 'My father killed my Mummy and I'm scared if he comes out of jail too soon he may come again and harm me because I heard him killing my Mummy.
'He is probably the most evilest man I've ever recognized and I wish he wasn't my father.'
The killing was the subject of the two-part ITV documentary The British Airways Killer
The disgraced former pilot was resulting from be launched from prison in November 2023, halfway by means of his 26-year sentence.
However Justice Secretary Alex Chalk blocked Brown's automated release, as an alternative referring his case to the Parole Board.
Brown launched legal motion towards the government, claiming this move to block his release was 'unreasonable'.
Legal professionals appearing on his behalf claimed the Justice Secretary's intervention was illegal and politically motivated because of the Joanna household's high-profile media campaign.
The prisoner argued he'd been 'cured' of the adjustment disorder he blamed for Joanna's demise.
He claimed the dysfunction was sparked partially by his bitter divorce and he poses no danger to anyone.
Joanna's family and pals have been appalled by the judicial determination not to convict Brown of homicide at his trial in 2011.
They've continued opposing his release from jail.
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Diana Parkes, Joanna's 84-year-old mother, previously warned that Brown would be a danger to other women if he was released as scheduled in November.
She stated: 'I'm very concerned about his release because he'll seek revenge. He will blame everyone else but himself for what he did.
'Jo's buddies, my family and ladies basically shall be typically because he has lost every thing that he had – he's been stripped of all of it.
'He's misplaced his job as a British Airways air captain, he's lost his house, he's lost his status, he's lost his high earning, however most of all he's misplaced his youngsters because they by no means need to see him once more.'
The High Courtroom dismissed Brown's legal challenge towards the government's determination to block his automated release on Wednesday.
Joanna's body was not discovered till five days later.
The Joanna Simpson Basis was set up in her identify to help and shield youngsters who are affected by home abuse, violence and murder.
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