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| Triple killer Theodore Johnson admits murdering ex-partner | Triple killer Theodore Johnson admits murdering ex-partner |
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| A man who already had convictions for killing two women has pleaded guilty to murdering his former partner. | A man who already had convictions for killing two women has pleaded guilty to murdering his former partner. |
| Theodore Johnson, 64, from Islington, north London, admitted beating Angela Best with a claw hammer and throttling her with a dressing gown cord. | Theodore Johnson, 64, from Islington, north London, admitted beating Angela Best with a claw hammer and throttling her with a dressing gown cord. |
| Johnson has two previous manslaughter convictions: one for pushing his wife over a balcony in 1981 and one in 1993 for strangling a partner. | |
| He will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday. | |
| The garage worker threw himself in front of an express train after attacking Ms Best, 51, at his Islington home on 15 December 2016, but survived. | |
| Police only discovered the body of Ms Best when they called at Johnson's flat to find his next of kin after the incident at Cheshunt railway station. | |
| Pushed over balcony | |
| The defendant, who now uses a wheelchair, pleaded guilty to murdering the mother of four and grandmother, on the first day of his trial. | |
| Johnson's long-term relationship with Ms Best ended in 2016 when she met someone else. | |
| 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. | |
| In 1981 Johnson was found guilty of the manslaughter of his wife after pushing her over the balcony of their ninth-floor flat in Wolverhampton during a row. | |
| In 1993 he pleaded guilty to manslaughter, on grounds of diminished responsibility, after strangling another former partner with a cord after she began an affair. |