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<h6 id="google_ads_iframe_/3048/d.thesun/news/uknews_0__container__"><span style="color: #3b2e2e;"><strong>Burglar who bludgeoned a grandma to death with a hammer jailed after cops use daughter’s DNA to catch him</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3b2e2e;"><strong><span class="article__media-span">Cristian Sabou, 28, </span>who bludgeoned an elderly house sitter to death with a hammer on Dec. 29, 2013</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3b2e2e;"><strong>He was jailed for life <span class="article__media-span"><span class="article__credit">at Lewes crown court on Monday </span></span>after investigators used familial DNA matching from his two daughter’s to prove his guilt </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3b2e2e;"><strong>Sabou’s arrest in July this year and a sample of his own DNA confirmed a match with forensic profiles obtained from the murder weapon, left behind at the murder scene</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3b2e2e;"><strong>His wife had turned him in after he came clean when she caught him researching the story of the killing online </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3b2e2e;"><strong>Police convinced her to provide forensic swabs from their daughters, aged, to provide evidence linking him to Valerie’s killing through familial DNA match</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3b2e2e;"><strong><span class="article__media-span">Artist Valerie, 55, had been house-sitting at a multi-million dollar property in West Sussex, UK, when Cristian broke in </span></strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #3b2e2e;"><strong><span class="article__media-span"><span class="article__credit">Sabou will serve a minimum of 23 years after pleading guilty to murder</span></span></strong></span></h6>
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<span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-335070" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Cristian-Sabou-2.jpg" alt="Cristian Sabou 2" width="710" height="739" /><strong>Killer b</strong></span><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);">urglar: </span><span class="article__media-span" style="color: var(--color-text);">Cristian Sabou [photo] </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">who bludgeoned an elderly house-sitter to death with a hammer in Dec. 2013, was jailed for life Monday by a UK court after cops matched forensic swabs from his young daughter daughter to DNA left behind at the crime scene</span></strong></h6>
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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">A Romanian immigrant has been was jailed for life in a UK court for a horrific hammer attack on a house sitter while committing a house burglary resulting in her death, six years ago.<br />
Cristian Sabou was convicted for the murder of a house-sitter in a burglary gone wrong, after being incriminated by the familial DNA sample obtained from his two daughters, aged six and four.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Cristian Sabou, 28, was accused of killing artist Valerie Graves during a home invasion on December 29, 2013.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The 55-year-old grandmother who has been described as a “loving and free spirit,” was house-sitting at a multi-million dollar property in Bosham, West Sussex at the time.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Sabou who had previously worked for the property owners as a landscaper had learned the owners would be away for Christmas, leaving a large amount of cash and ingots in a safe.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Ironically the killer was turned in by his wife Adina Marian after he confessed to her that he had killed Graves during a break-in.</span></p>
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<h6><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><img class="alignnone wp-image-335066" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Adina-Marian-1.jpg" alt="Adina Marian 1" width="698" height="729" />Whistle blower: <strong>The killer&#8217;s wife, Adina Marian turned her husband in to the authorities and provided corroborating DNA evidence when she realized he&#8217;d committed the heinous burglary</strong></span></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Sabou came clean after his wife caught him researching stories online about the killing.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">She went to police who convinced her to provide forensic swabs from their daughters, aged, to provide evidence linking him to Valerie’s killing through familial DNA.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The crucial intelligence led to Sabou’s arrest in July this year and a sample of his own DNA confirmed a match with forensic profiles obtained from the murder weapon, left behind at the murder scene.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Adina, 26, explained her decision to turn in her husband, saying: “I could not live with myself knowing that a cold-blooded murderer was walking the streets free.”<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">On the day of the crime, after drinking a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, Sabou cycled to the property to burgle it on the night of December 29, 2013, armed with a foot-long black and red claw hammer.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">But after entering through an unlocked patio door to a ground-floor bedroom, he found Valerie and attacked her, causing “horrific injuries” to her head as she tried to defend herself.</span></p>
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<h6><span class="article__media-span"><img class="alignnone wp-image-335080" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Valerie-Graves-1.jpg" alt="Valerie Graves 1" width="736" height="849" />Victim: <strong>Artist Valerie, 55, had been house-sitting at a $2.06million property in Bosham, West Sussex, when Sabou broke into the home on Dec 29, 2013 and left her critically injured as she tried to defend her self. She succumbed to her injuries shortly after</strong></span><span class="article__credit"></p>
<p><span class="article__media-span"><img class="alignnone wp-image-335082" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Weapon-used-by-Cristian-Sabou-in-the-Valerie-Graves-murder1.jpg" alt="Weapon used by Cristian Sabou in the Valerie Graves murder1.JPG" width="865" height="552" /><strong>Murder weapon: DNA evidence was matched to samples on the murder weapon, a foot-long black and red claw hammer, that the killer left behind after he attacked Valerie Graves with it</strong></span></span></h6>
<p><span class="article__credit">Sabou will serve a minimum of 23 years after pleading guilty to murder at Lewes crown court on Monday.
<picture></picture>Judge Christine Laing praised Adina for having the “decency and courage” to come forward, adding the murder would have “remained unsolved” if she had not.<br />
Adina who returned to her native Romania shortly after, said in an interview, “I didn’t do anything for a while because I was afraid of him and what this might to do our little girls. But I decided to do it because it’s the right thing to do.<br />
“I feel sorry for Valerie’s family and ashamed that my husband caused them so much pain. I hope that this verdict will bring them some comfort,” she said.</span></p>
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Man who bludgeoned UK grandma to death with a hammer during home invasion jailed for life – Cristian Sabou was convicted after his wife found out, turned him in and cops used his daughter’s DNA to match his profile
