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Lorna Woodnutt
Alison O’Riordan
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A teenage boy used a sledgehammer and a lump hammer to bludgeon 51-year-old Lorna Woodnutt to death before posting a video on Snapchat and sending a selfie with the victim, the Central Criminal Court has heard.
The victim’s niece told today how she discovered her aunt had been brutally murdered when she received content that she described “as something a terrorist would create”.
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