WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Trudi Burgess, 56, could hear her 'skeleton snapping' during the vicious attack by Robert Easom in a bedroom earlier this year in Lancashire Trudi Burgess was grieving the death of her husband when she met a new partner (Image: Facebook)

A teacher has been left paralysed from the chest down after what was described as a “brutal” and “vicious” assault by her ex-lover, a court has heard.

Robert Easom, 56, is accused of “snapping” the neck of mum-of-two Trudi Burgess, also 56, during a violent row sparked when she told him she was leaving him. Jurors were told Easom later lied to police and her family, claiming: "It was just a frolic which has gone horribly wrong.”

He is standing trial at Preston Crown Court, where he admits causing the injury but d

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