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Wheelchair-bound pensioner, 96, becomes one of UK's oldest murder suspects

Jack Tindall appeared at court in a wheelchair (credit: SWNS)
Jack Tindall appeared at court in a wheelchair (credit: SWNS)

A 96-year-old man has become one of the oldest people in British history to be charged with murder.

Jack Tindall appeared at court in a wheelchair charged with killing his 92-year-old wife Ernestine.
He is accused of murdering her at their home in Perlethorpe, near Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, on August 3 last year. The couple had been married for 68 years.

Dressed in a blue blazer, a cardigan and a white shirt with a green tie the pensioner did not enter a plea at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday.

Judge Gregory Dickinson QC granted Tindall, of Boughton, Nottinghamshire, unconditional bail. He will next appear at Nottingham Crown Court on June 9 for a plea and case management hearing.

Tindall is said to have killed his wife of 68 years at their Nottinghamshire home (credit: SWNS)
Tindall is said to have killed his wife of 68 years at their Nottinghamshire home (credit: SWNS)

Britain’s oldest killer is Bernard Heginbotham who stabbed to death wife Ida, 87, in an “act of love” when he was 99 on April 1 2004.

The great-grandfather could not face his partner of 67 years being moved to a fifth care home in three months and so slashed her throat in their bungalow in Preesall, Lancashire.

He was handed a 12-month community order after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

Heginbotham died in a care home, aged 102, in February 2007.