25yrs for hammer attacker.Byline: Paul Byrne A CHEATING boyfriend was jailed for 25 years yesterday for trying to murder his heavily pregnant partner so he could benefit from her will. Simon Morris attacked Nerys Price with a hammer while she slept and tried to make it look like a botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. burglary. He planned to cash in on her will and start a new life with his secret lover. Morris, 37, who denied attempted murder and attempted child destruction, had encouraged Nerys, 35, to change her will so he was the sole beneficiary of her estate. He would have inherited hundreds of thousands of pounds. Morris twice bludgeoned his girlfriend in the head with the sharp end of a bricklayer's hammer. She was 38 weeks pregnant when he attacked her at their home in Prestatyn, northWales, in August 2008. Price, who woke up during the attack, called the emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' herself. She was taken to hospital, where she later gave birth to a girl by emergency Caesarean section. Morris was arrested eight days later. A jury of eight men and four women unanimously found Morris guilty on both counts after a three-week retrial retrial n. a new trial granted upon the motion of the losing party, based on obvious error, bias or newly-discovered evidence. (See: newly-discovered evidence) . Standing in the dock at Mold Crown Court, the 6ft 6in former nightclub bouncer wiped away tears as judge Merfyn Hughes QC told him he had committed a "shocking" crime. |
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