A FUGITIVE who beat a mum-of-six to death in an unprovoked attack after stalking her as she walked her dog has been jailed.
Roy Barclay subjected Anita Rose to “numerous kicks, stamps and blows” on her face, head and body.
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Suffolk PoliceRoy Barclay was captured stalking the mum before he killed her[/caption]
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The 57-year-old had been walking her dog Bruce when she was discovered on a path with bootmarks on her face.
At the time, Barclay, 56, was living in makeshift camps in the countryside and “wandering the fields and lanes”.
He had been “unlawfully at large” for two years and went on the run to avoid being recalled to prison following an attack on a pensioner in 2015.
Barclay has now been jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years after he was found guilty of murder.
In a victim impact statement, Anita’s daughter Jessica Cox fought back tears as she slammed the “evil” killer.
She said: “He has put us through a nightmare which we can’t wake up from.
“I don’t feel he has shown any remorse.
“What he’s done is horrific and it’s evil. He’s given no reason why he’s changed our lives forever.
“We will never have the answers we deserve as a family.”
On July 24 last year, Anita left her home in Brantham, Suffolk, to walk Bruce “as she often did”.
Chilling footage showed Barclay following her along a country lane with a bag in his hand.
Moments later, he murdered the mum-of-six in an “explosion of violence”.
Anita was later found by passers-by after being subjected to a “vicious and brutal attack”.
Bruce’s lead was tightly wrapped around her ankle in a bid to stop the dog from “running off”.
Anita was rushed to hospital but died four days later after suffering injuries likened to a road traffic accident.
At the time, Barclay “lived mostly in the countryside, wandering the fields and lanes, sleeping in various makeshift camps”.
He was wanted by police after he caused grievous bodily harm with intent to an 82-year-old man in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, in 2015.
Prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC said: “In his mid-40s, he (Barclay) fractured nearly all of the bones of an 82-year-old’s face, having taken him to the ground in 2015.
“Anybody that attacks an 82-year-old man in that way displays a ruthlessness and callousness that defies logic.”
The court heard a pink jacket worn by Anita on the day she was attacked was found at one of Barclay’s makeshift camps.
Barclay kept the jacket “as a trophy” and it had his “semen on the neckline”, the prosecutor said.
His walking boots, which “amounted to the murder weapon”, were found at the same camp.
Police searching a different camp Barclay used discovered Anita’s phone case and her Samsung earbuds.
Mr Paxton said he kept the belongings as haunting “trophies”.
He also said Barclay made various internet searches after the attack, including “how are outside objects swabbed for DNA“.
Nicola Pope, of the Crown Prosecution Service, described the attack as “savage” and “an act of terrifying senselessness”.
She added: “As we combed through the evidence collected by police it became apparent that at almost every turn Barclay made it his mission to deceive the investigation.
“He thought he was too cunning to be caught, but today’s verdict proves otherwise.”
Doorbell footage showed the mum leaving her home as normalPA
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