GRANDMOTHER Doreen Walker was brutally murdered for her pension money in her own home, a court heard.
Doreen, of Birkwood Avenue, Cudworth, was allegedly throttled, beaten, slashed and stabbed more than 40 times by 23-year-old Liam Naylor in April.
After leaving a large carving knife embedded in the 75-year-old's neck, Naylor then paid for a night out with his friends with her £104 pension cash.He later claimed he was acting in self-defence after the pensioner attacked him.
Simon Waley, prosecuting, said there were 'in excess of 40 sharp force injuries' to the pensioner's head, face, neck, arms and chest.
Naylor and his friend Keeley Sweeney, 17, who was the grand-daughter of Mrs Walker, then went out in Barnsley town centre with two pals.
Naylor denies murder and the trial continues.
