‘Happily married’ mechanic, 38, who took super strength LSD ‘n-bomb’ and beat his teacher wife and a hero pensioner to death during a psychotic episode before doing a ‘victory speech’ to neighbours outside their £370,000 house is jailed for life

A mechanic who behaved like the ‘Incredible Hulk’ after taking turbo-charged LSD nicknamed the ‘N-Bomb’ was jailed for life today after beating his wife and a pensioner to death with a walking stick while believing he was God and wearing only his pants. Daniel Appleton, 38, was convicted of murdering Amy Appleton, 32, and passer-by Sandra Seagrave, 76, on the driveway outside his home in Crawley Down, West Sussex, and was sentenced to a minimum of 26 years in prison at Lewes Crown Court. Appleton had denied murder claiming he had suffered a psychotic episode and insisted he had only ever taken drugs on his stag do years earlier. But the jury agreed he was lying after traces of N-Bomb, a highly potent and toxic synthetic version of LSD, were found on his hair and nails. Sentencing Appleton this morning, judge Mr Justice Nicholas Hilliard QC told him that this was ‘not a case of insanity’. He added: ‘I sentence you on the basis that you took a new psychoactive substance and under the influence of this committed these murders’. On December 22 2019 Appleton was seen dragging his wife Amy, who he had married a year earlier, out of their… Read full this story

'Happily married' mechanic, 38, who took super strength LSD 'n-bomb' and beat his teacher wife and a hero pensioner to death during a psychotic episode before doing a 'victory speech' to neighbours outside their £370,000 house is jailed for life have 346 words, post on www.dailymail.co.uk at January 25, 2021. This is cached page on xBlogs. If you want remove this page, please contact us.