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| Alexander Kerry jailed for Norwich murder of Pauline King | |
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| A man who admitted the "vile murder" of an 82-year-old woman in her Norwich home has been jailed for life, with an order to serve 25 years and six months. | |
| Pauline King, described by police as a "reclusive hermit", was found at The Avenues on 22 February. | |
| Alexander Kerry, 23, of Kinghorn Road, Norwich, was sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court after he entered a guilty plea. | |
| He denied a charge of sexual assault and the prosecution chose not to proceed on that count. | He denied a charge of sexual assault and the prosecution chose not to proceed on that count. |
| Ms King died as a result of a sustained assault with a knife and hammer during a burglary at her home, the court was told. | |
| She lived alone in what police described as a "dilapidated" detached house and neighbours said she was a pleasant but reclusive woman. | |
| Kerry was found later the same day wandering nearby streets covered in blood. | |
| Det Sup Paul Durham described it as a "vile murder" which "sent a shudder of fear" through the community. | |
| Prosecutor Andrew Jackson said Kerry, desperate for money after drinking in a Norwich city centre pub, had broken into the home and beat Ms King to death. | |
| He then tried to set fire to the house to destroy the evidence, he said. | |
| The court heard he was left deeply damaged after his father murdered his mother as he and his brother slept at their home in 2002. | |
| Mr Justice Stuart-Smith said he acted with "animal brutality" to murder Miss King and sexually abuse her dying body in an "act of desecration". | |
| He said: "Nothing begins to explain what you did to Pauline King. She must have suffered terribly." | |
| Kerry had a criminal record including violence and disorderly behaviour dating back to his teens, he said. | |
| Jonathan Goodman, mitigating, said his client had "self-medicated" through alcohol and drugs following the almost "unimaginable" events of his childhood. |