A daughter has spoken of the horror of watching her mother’s murder on a doorbell camera after a man forced his way into the home of a 69-year-old grandmother.
Today, a jury sitting at Caernarfon Crown Court found Dean Mears, 34, guilty of the murder of Catherine Flynn after four hours of deliberations.
The grandmother, known by everyone as Cathy, lived alone and was in bed when she was attacked and killed by Mears, who broke into her home in Rhyl last October.
The pensioner suffered from serious health issues and needed to use a wheelchair. When Mears, a scaffolder who was high on drugs, approached Cathy’s house, her doorbell camera triggered a message on her daughter Natasha Flynn-Farrell’s phone.
Natasha watched him break in and then listened in horror to the sounds of the attack on her mother. Remarkably she remembered the app had to stay open for the footage to be recorded. That footage became the key evidence in this case.
She told ITV News she just “had to watch it play out” and knew she “had to stay on it for it to be recorded.” Describing what she saw and heard Natasha said “it was horrendous, it was sickening.”
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