Barbara Coombes guilty of killing father with a shovel after ‘40 years of abuse’

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Barbara Coombes
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A woman who says she “snapped” after spending 40 years as a “sex slave” to her abusive father has been jailed for nine years for killing him with a shovel.

Barbara Coombes, 63, of Reddish, Stockport, plead guilty to manslaughter, preventing a lawful burial and fraud over her father Kenneth’s death in 2006, but denied murder.

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