Killer's widow pension bid fails

A woman who killed her retired police officer husband has had her legal battle for a widow's pension dismissed by the Court of Appeal.

Carol Glover stabbed husband Michael in the heart with a kitchen knife at their Stoke-on-Trent home on Boxing Day 1998.

Glover, then 48, who admitted manslaughter, was jailed for two years at Birmingham Crown Court in May 1999.

She was told she would not be granted a widow's pension, but had challenged the decision in the High Court.

Staffordshire Police Authority's reason was based on the common law rule of forfeiture.

That means someone who has unlawfully killed another cannot acquire a consequential benefit.