DETECTIVES were yesterday given an extension to continue quizzing a man on suspicion of murdering Hampshire pensioner Georgina Edmonds.
The 31-year-old suspect from Eastleigh appeared before magistrates yesterday afternoon where detectives were given until 9pm today to charge or release him.
He was being held at an unnamed police station in the north of the county for questioning over the killing of the 77-year-old grandmother who was found bludgeoned to death at her home in Brambridge more than two-and-a-half years ago.
Mrs Edmonds was a widow of Basingstoke coffee merchant Harry Edmonds.
Her body was found by her son, also called Harry. He ran The Edmonds Group, a coffee merchants with an office in Paddington House in Festival Place, Basingstoke.
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