How row over money led to Greg Irvin's shocking murder of his grandmother Anne James
Debt-ridden Greg Irvin cut the throat of his doting grandmother and stabbed her more than 40 times with her own bread knife after discovering she had been told to stop giving him money.
The 26 year old’s addiction to gambling and use of cocaine had left him owing £35,000 to banks and credit card companies.
He was also jobless after being involved in a bungled bid to steal £29,600 worth of leather goods on April 20 last year from FedEx in Burntwood where he had worked for six years. He admitted the offence.
Generous grandma Anne James, a 74-year-old retired nurse and charity volunteer who never saw bad in anybody, had handed him thousands of pounds, including £5,000 to buy his first car and £1,000 to pay off gambling debts.
Irvin had trawled the internet using the search words ‘old lady killed but killer never found’ just two days before Mrs James was murdered at her Walsall Wood home.
