Colin Adlard was under palliative care and signed a do-not-resuscitate order.
Colin Adlard hit his wife repeatedly with a hammer at their home in a Northamptonshire village, his 2011 trial heard
A man who murdered his wife of 30 years with a hammer while she slept died of heart failure in prison, aged 72. Colin Adlard was serving a life sentence for killing Wendy Adlard at their home near Northampton in 2011.An investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman revealed Adlard also had long-term health conditions including kidney disease and anaemia.
During his trial in 2011, Northampton Crown Court heard Adlard, then 61, hit his wife three times at their home at Chase Park Road in Yardley Hastings in January of that year.The PPOHe was under palliative care and had signed a do-not-resuscitate order.
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