A woman is keeping her late mother's campaign to keep a killer behind bars ongoing after her sister was raped and murdered.
03.04.2024 - 17:19 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A woman was found by cops bloody and shaking after being brutally beaten by a "friend" on Christmas Day just months before she was murdered by another man.
Georgina Dowey, 46, was attacked at her home in Glyncoch, Pontypridd by Andrew Lewis after he forced his way into the property and punched her, headbutted her, kicked her twice with his boots and threw her over his shoulder, causing injury to her head, reports Wales Online.
Ms Dowey was brutally murdered by her partner Mathew Pickering on May 6 last year, who left her body on the toilet floor of his Neath home as he went shopping and visited his parents. He had beaten her and strangled her before putting a plastic bag over her face.
Pickering was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 17 and a half years.
The sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday, April 3, heard Ms Dowey and Lewis, 56, had known each other for two years, and she would help him by giving him food and letting him visit her home. He had previously told her that he wanted a relationship with her, but she told him she was not interested.
On Christmas Day 2022, Lewis repeatedly visited Ms Dowey's home, but she was unwell with the flu and had called the cops as she did not want the defendant to return.
At around 2.30pm, she was sleeping in bed when Lewis again knocked at the door. She went down to speak to him, and he asked for £10, to use the toilet and purchase alcohol.
Prosecutor Marian Lewis explained how Ms Dowey had told Lewis she wanted to get back to bed as she was feeling ill. However, without warning, he put his foot inside the door to prevent her from shutting it and repeatedly punched her to the face with both of his fists.
Ms Dowey felt blood dripping down her face, and
A woman is keeping her late mother's campaign to keep a killer behind bars ongoing after her sister was raped and murdered.
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