A thug on the run from police brutally murdered a mother-of-six while she was walking her dog and left her with a lead tied around her ankle in a 'signature move'.
Roy Barclay, 56, had been living 'off-grid' in a desperate attempt to avoid being recalled to prison when he encountered Anita Rose and her pet.
The court heard Barclay subjected her to 'numerous kicks, stamps and blows' in a 'vicious and brutal' onslaught while she was out with her spaniel, Bruce.
She was found by passers-by on a footpath beside a sewage works - then tragically died four days later.
But a detail was crucial to detectives to try track down who it is that murdered the 57-year-old dogwalker.
