Pensioner feared she would die after bodybuilder hits her with hammer

A pensioner feared she would die after a bodybuilder kissed a bloodied hammer and told her "I might as well be done for murder" as he rained blows on her head. Cancer survivor Michelle O'Donnell, 72, was helpless on the floor as handyman Perry Redmond battered her in a rage because she had no money to lend him. Redmond, 50, who lived in a camper van, first hit the petite woman with a heavy frying pan before returning to her Kent home armed with a hammer. Forcing his was in the 6ft 3ins thug dragged the 5ft 1in tall woman around by her hair while hitting her and demanding she begged for her life. Despite suffering skull fractures, two broken ribs and a collar bone, severe facial injuries including smashed teeth, and hand and arm wounds, Mrs O'Donnell managed to escape.