{"id":608818,"date":"2026-05-28T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608818\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:09:09","slug":"crazed-maniac-who-murdered-cousin-with-axe-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608818\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Crazed maniac&#8217; who murdered cousin with axe jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A &#8220;crazed maniac&#8221; who murdered his cousin with an axe in her own home has been sent to prison. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Donald Excell, 50, killed Rita Lambourne, 58, in Bexhill, East Sussex, on 12 February 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He denied murder and possession of a bladed article, but security camera footage captured him carrying the axe as he walked towards his cousin&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Judge Christine Henson KC said Excell had become preoccupied with a self-made conspiracy theory about a paedophile cover-up that included Rita, though there was no evidence for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A &#8220;crazed maniac&#8221; who murdered his cousin with an axe in her own home has been sent to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-608818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}