By Rick Dewsbury PUBLISHED: 11:02 EST, 13 July 2012 | UPDATED: 11:02 EST, 13 July 2012 A Thai carer who bludgeoned to death her pensioner lover with a claw hammer after he changed his will to leave her £340,000 was today jailed for life. Bunthawee Rimmer, 49, launched the frenzied attack on veteran soldier Paul Norfolk with a 12oz hammer as he slept. She arrived in Britain in 1998 after her late husband Geoffrey Rimmer met her on a Thai beach while she was selling doughnuts. Mr Rimmer died in xxx and Bunthawee the started a sexual relationship with Mr Norfolk - her dead husband's best friend - in 2010 after she was employed to care for his sick wife Esme, who suffers from alzheimer's.
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Paul Norfolk bludgeoned to death with 12oz claw hammer as he slept
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Wrote his wife out of will and left entire £340k estate to Thai lover
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'No-one should lose their life in the way that @placeholder did.
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'Our remaining years will be spent grieving for him, who brought joy and happiness into our lives and whom we shall always remember as our dearest @placeholder.