A PATHOLOGIST detailed the 36 injuries sustained by a grandmother at the trial of the man accused of her murder.

Dr Hugh White told Winchester Crown Court that Georgina Edmonds, pictured below, sustained a minimum of five blows to the head, which had killed her.

Matthew Hamlen is accused of beating the 77-year-old to death with a rolling pin after torturing her repeatedly with a knife in a bid to get her to reveal her cashcard PIN code.

She was found in the kitchen of her home, Fig Tree Cottage, off Kiln Lane, Brambridge, on January 11, 2008.

Dr White found a number of skull lacerations, fracturing of the skull and face, and knife wounds in her neck, chest, abdomen and upper back.

He said that the knife injuries had been inflicted when Mrs Edmonds was alive.

He said that she had fractures to her nose, eye socket, cheekbone and jaw, parts of her skull had been “shattered”, and such injuries would have been caused by blunt force impacts Hamlen, of Hamilton Road, Bishopstoke, denies murder.

Proceeding.