IN THE NEWS TAXI DRIVER ANDREW FLOOD SENTENCED TO
A Southport taxi driver has admitted murder- ing two pensioners in their own homes. Andrew Flood, 43, wept as he was brought into the dock at Liverpool Crown Court where he plead- ed guilty to killing 88-year-old Anne Ley- land and Margaret Biddolph, 78, in Febru- ary. He has been sen- tenced to life in prison, with the recommenda- tion he serves at least thirty years. The dad of four, also admitted the robbery of a third pensioner - 76-year-old Maureen Suckley - two days before the murders. Gambling
Flood, who was being chased for money by
LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDER OF SOUTHPORT WIDOWS credit
companies,
bailiffs and his land- lord, strangled Mrs Leyland with her own dressing gown cord and Mrs Biddolph with a telephone cable on Monday February 20. The Sun reports that he was caught on CCTV smirking as he left a bookmaker’s
shop addict
after staking bets with cash he had stolen from Mrs Biddolph and Mrs Leyland. Nicholas Johnson QC, prosecuting, told the court both women - as well as Mrs Suckley - were previous cus- tomers of Flood who drove for Southport- based All Whites Taxis. In the evening after he killed Mrs Leyland and Mrs Biddolph, Flood drunkenly arrived at
cer that he had killed two women. When he had sobered up the following morn- ing he gave police the two addresses and they made the grisly discovery of the elder- ly ladies. Mrs Leyland was found in the down- stairs bedroom of her home in Birch Street while Mrs Biddolph was
discovered Andrew Flood
Southport police sta- tion, the court was told, and pushed items of jewellery he had stolen from Mrs Leyland and Mrs
Suckley through a gap at the enquiry desk. He was arrested for being drunk and disor- derly and made the confession to an offi-
upstairs in her nearby Lonsdale Road home. According to the Liver- pool Echo, Judge Clement Goldstone QC, Recorder of Liver- pool, said although Flood - who had debts of around £18,000 - did not take anything from Mrs Biddolph it was an "irresistible inference"
that he
meant to rob her. The judge said: “It very much looks like for resistance to his plan, the victims paid with their lives.” John McDermott QC, defending, said this was an “extraordinary and difficult case to explain”. In talks with psychia- trists, the court was told, Flood “found it difficult to accept or believe he could have done such a grievous act”. Mr McDermott said his client had “amnesia” about
adding: “There is no simple or
the events rational
explanation for why a man of previous good character, a family man, has committed these crimes.”
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