A MAN aged 31 has been remanded in custody until September 3 charged with murdering former Farnworth divorcee Kathryn Sharples.

Billy Tolcher, who appeared before magistrates in Newquay, Cornwall, yesterday, is charged with murdering Kathryn, on Monday, July 22.

Tolcher gave the court an address in Torquay.

Kathryn, 43, was found battered to death in the bedroom of her bedsit, in Newquay.

There was no application for bail.

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