Florida man kills fiancee on eve of wedding--thought she was an intruder

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. – A man who thought there was an intruder in his house shot and killed his fiancee the day before they were to be married, police said Friday.

"Right now everything points to a tragic accident," Police Chief Kevin Brunelle told The Associated Press, adding investigators were awaiting forensic results.

John Tabutt, 62, told investigators he got his gun when he thought he heard an intruder, then fired at a figure in the hallway, according to Brunelle. It was Tabutt's live-in fiancee, 62-year-old Nancy Dinsmore, who family members say he was going to marry Saturday. Tabutt told authorities he thought she was next to him in bed the whole time.

A message left for a phone number listed for the house was not returned.

Brunelle said no charges have been filed against Tabutt, adding the information he provided has been verified and he appeared "very distraught."

Tabutt was "very concerned about her well-being," standing by while she was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, Brunelle added.

Four masked men forced their way into the house of a 79-year-old man in the Stockman's Lane area at about 1835 GMT.

Thirty minutes later, four men, one of whom was armed with a hook-like weapon, entered a pensioner's home at Montreal Street, near the Crumlin Road.

A 79-year-old man was later robbed by four men at his home at Orient Gardens, near the Cliftonville Road.

Victim 'beaten to death for £40'
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Harry Lindley was discovered in a pool of blood at his bungalow in Wallsend in April last year.

Michael Stevenson, 21, denied murder on the first day of a week-long trial.

The jury heard that Mr Lindley suffered at 15 least wounds to his head and face. He died from his injuries in hospital 26 days later.

Simon Bourne-Arton QC, prosecuting, said: "He had been struck repeatedly by a fist, with a weapon or weapons, stamped on repeatedly and he was probably subject to some form of strangulation."

The court heard how a hole in the wall of Mr Lindley's home had been caused by the defendant allegedly forcing the elderly victim's head into it.

Man robbed by raiders at his home

A 52-year-old man was robbed by three raiders as he was letting himself into his house after work.

The group, all wearing balaclavas and dark clothes, shoved him into the hallway of the house in Langford Road in Arnold at 2350 GMT on Monday.

They forced him onto the lounge floor, demanded cash and threatened him with a knife and a firearm when he refused.