June 2005   NEWS SECTIONS               CLASSIFIEDS                   SERVICES                NEWS Man kept body in bedroom By HEATHER LOW CHOY 22jun05 A TASMANIAN man murdered his wife and kept her bound body in a bedroom for six days, a court heard yesterday. The court was told Anthony David Blackmore hit his wife on the head with a hammer before strangling her with an electrical cord. Then, some time after killing her, he tied her body up with electrical cord and placed her body in the front bedroom of their Moonah home. Blackmore, 53, pleaded guilty yesterday in the Supreme Court in Hobart to murdering his second wife Lynette Blackmore, 63, on February 17 this year. The couple had been married for 17 years. Blackmore's lawyer Craig Mackie said Blackmore, a labourer, told him murdering his wife was an act of spontaneous anger. He said

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