Octogenarian dies in burglary, neighbors are flabbergasted upon discovering CCTV footage

found guilty. A man named Vasile Culea, 34, was convicted on October 21, 2022 for the murder of Freda Walker. He had broken into the home of this Briton and her husband, located in Shirebrook, in the English county of Derbyshire, to to steal the equivalent of 35,000 euros in cash before drawing a blank. During his trial, details were given of how the 34-year-old man brutally assaulted this retired couple. He tied them up before putting a bag on the head of the old lady then he left her for dead in the kitchen.

Neighborhood residents in shock

This terrible tragedy left neighborhood neighbors in shock. Across the street, Douglas Steel, 78, told local news outlet Nottinghamshire Live how the suspect was identified. The cops just got it seen on surveillance videos. “You don’t expect a killer to be walking down your street, but detectives took away a box with the footage and they managed to catch him as he was walking outside”, did he declare. This man has lived in this peaceful street until then.

“All I can say is that Freda would have easily turned 100 if it hadn’t happened because she was still fit and still doing things like gardening”, another neighbor said of the victim. Despite of serious injuries, her husband, Ken Walker, survived the attack. But the 86-year-old died a few months later of one “natural death”, according to the report of the doctors. During the trial, Andrew Baxter, the deputy chief prosecutor, offered condolences to loved ones of the Walkers and lamented that this deadly burglary had left “a grieving family and a community in shock.”