By Anthony Bond PUBLISHED: 10:32 EST, 5 October 2012 | UPDATED: 12:33 EST, 5 October 2012 Disturbed: Stephen Farrow, 48, left a chilling handwritten note threatening to kill Christians at a house which he burgled just weeks before stabbing a vicar to death, a court has heard A drifter left a chilling handwritten note threatening to kill Christians at a house which he burgled just weeks before stabbing a vicar to death, a court has heard. Stephen Farrow, 48, staked the letter to a table with two knives after burgling a house just weeks before he killed Reverend John Suddards, 59.
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Stephen Farrow, 48, staked the letter to a table with two knives after burgling a house just weeks before he killed Reverend John Suddards
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'Be thankful you did not come back or we would have killed you Christian scum', it read
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Farrow admits the manslaughter of Rev Suddards on the grounds of diminished responsibility
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But he denies the earlier murder of Betty Yates, 77, at her remote home by battering her with her walking stick and repeatedly stabbing her
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