A Staffordshire Detective Inspector has discussed the manslaughter of 71-year-old Knypersley woman Wendy Morse by Kenneth McDermid.

Biddulph Nub News reported last week how McDermid was sentenced to a hospital order.

Wendy was found at her home in Tunstall Road just after 7pm on Sunday, March 22 last year.

McDermid, 43, of Rosemary Place, Sneyd Green was arrested by authorities in Sweden five days later having fled to the country following the killing.

Now Staffordshire Police DI Cheryl Hannan has spoken more about the case in a video.

Read what she had to say below:

"Kenneth McDermid was identified as a suspect who'd had contact with Wendy in the days preceding her disappearance.

"He was doing work for her and getting on with that.

"CCTV and witness evidence then quickly established that Kenneth had been at Wendy's address on the Thursday (19th March) and she hadn't been seen or been in contact with family or friends since that Thursday.

"Clearly something had happened between the two of them that led to this and perhaps we'll never know what instigated the attack that Kenneth carried out on Wendy on that Thursday.

"He'd taken her car with him when he left the address and drove that away and that was recovered from a location near to his home address.

"We also established forensic evidence linking him to the crime scene at his home address.

"The phone evidence, of contact between Wendy and Kenneth, has helped us to establish that link between them, and when he was at the address and what work he was doing, and that he'd travelled there on that Thursday morning to Wendy, and there was no subsequent contact between them two since that day and indeed, Wendy to anybody else.

"We can obviously show that Kenneth returned to his home address following the offence. He disposed of evidential items by setting fire to them - that was we believe on the Friday.

"He then made arrangements by booking tickets for flights out of the country on the Friday, for the Saturday evening.

"He booked a taxi to travel to an airport in the south of the country on the Saturday evening, to then fly out.

"Once we knew that was the case we were in close contact with the Crown Prosecution Service and Swedish authorities to establish where he was in Sweden so we could secure his arrest."

If you would like to watch the video, visit the Staffordshire Police Facebook page here.