Instead a $150 store-bought costume and rubber sword turned retail identity Colin Shearing’s state election publicity stunt into a showdown with police over claims he was a “public risk”.

Husband used a plastic sword to attack his wife and then killed her with pliers, cops say Timothy Morgan, 68, was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of his wife, 67-year-old ...

Police believe that the alleged murder weapons were a plastic sword and a pair of pliers, which were used to strike a fatal blow to Kathryn Morgan’s head.