A retired scientist battered his partner to death with a lump hammer after a petty argument over his straightening the duvet on his bed.Edgar Fairhurst accused 83-year-old Marjorie Elphick of nagging him when she complained about the noise and launched an attack in which he 'beat her to a pulp'.Fairhurst, aged 74, told police 'I had to make sure she was dead and I put her to sleep', Exeter Crown Court was told.The couple had been together for about 40 years and were sleeping in separate but...
