Son jailed after strangling his mother for her bank cards

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A jobless man who beat and strangled his mother then fled with her bank cards to Spain where he killed a second woman - and tried to behead her her - has been jailed for life.

Sean Heiss from Surbiton in south London was already serving a 22-year jail sentence for killing Clementina Liscano in Barcelona when he was extradited back to Britain to be tried for the earlier murder of 58-year-old Margaret Sheehy.

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The Old Bailey heard Heiss throttled and punched Margaret Sheehy to death at her home in Kingston in June 2012 before using her bank cards to board the Eurostar to Paris and then on to San Sebastian in Spain.

Sean Heiss Credit: PA

Three months later, he was arrested by Spanish police for stabbing Clementina Liscano to death after she disturbed him sleeping rough in a bank cashpoint booth in Barcelona.

Heiss was jailed with a minimum of 27 years and three months.