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Man pleads guilty to murdering elderly woman

Google Terraced brick houses in Dickson Park, Wickham. The street scene includes parked cars, wooden fences, green bins and a small section of grass.Google
Police were called to Dickson Park in Wickham on 23 December 2023

A man has pleaded guilty to murdering a woman in her 70s who was found with serious injuries two days before Christmas.

Police were called at about 07:30 GMT on 23 December 2023 to an address in Dickson Park in Wickham, Hampshire, following a reported assault.

June Henty was taken to hospital where she died six months later in June 2024 at the age of 78.

Adam David Wright, 38, of Grovers Field, Bishop's Waltham, is due to be sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court on 2 May.

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