A man who already had convictions for killing his wife and a former partner has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n
Theodore Johnson, 64, beat Angela Best with a claw hammer and throttled her with a dressing gown cord after she met another man, the Old Bailey heard.<\/p>\n
Johnson, who pushed his wife over a balcony in 1981 and strangled a partner in 1993, has two previous manslaughter convictions.<\/p>\n
He will be sentenced on Friday.<\/p>\n
After attacking Ms Best, 51, at his Islington home on 15 December 2016, the garage worker threw himself in front of an express train but survived.<\/p>\n
Police only discovered Ms Best’s body when they called at Johnson’s north London flat to find his next of kin after the incident at Cheshunt railway station.<\/p>\n
The defendant, who now uses a wheelchair, pleaded guilty to murdering mother-of-four and grandmother Ms Best on the first day of his trial.<\/p>\n
Johnson’s long-term relationship with Ms Best ended in 2016 when she met someone else.<\/p>\n
A post-mortem examination established her cause of death to be neck compression by strangulation with a ligature and blunt force trauma to the head.<\/p>\n
In 1981, Johnson was found guilty of wife Yvonne Johnson’s manslaughter.<\/p>\n
He hit her over the head with a vase during a row before pushing her over the balcony of their ninth-floor flat in Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n
In 1993, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter, on the grounds of diminished responsibility, after attacking former partner Yvonne Bennett.<\/p>\n
The couple, who had a daughter together, had been living in Finsbury Park in north London.<\/p>\n
Johnson strangled Ms Bennett with a belt after she had an affair with another man.<\/p>\n
He met Ms Best after he was released from a psychiatric unit in the mid 1990s.<\/p>\n
She and her children had moved from Manchester to Tottenham, north London.<\/p>\n
Ms Best’s two sisters were in court as Johnson entered his guilty plea.<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"