PAUL Carpenter subjected his own mother to a horrific beating because he blamed her for his father's death more than 20 years ago.
Susan Carpenter was sitting in an armchair at her home in Drybrook when her 30-year-old son began raining blows down on her.
She had 52 separate points of impact on her body after the savage attack and spent two weeks in hospital, Gloucester Crown Court was told last week. Carpenter, of Hawthorns Road, Drybrook, admitted wounding his mother with intent to cause...
