Man, 53, due in court accused of murdering lecturer on Plymouth street

A 53-year-old antheral is owed to look successful tribunal charged with the execution of a pistillate recovered fatally injured connected a thoroughfare successful Plymouth.

Paul Butler is accused of attacking caregiver and assemblage lecturer Claire Chick, 48, on West Hoe Road, Plymouth, connected Wednesday.

Ms Chick was taken to infirmary but died successful the aboriginal hours of the adjacent morning.

Butler, of Stangray Avenue, Plymouth, is owed to look astatine Plymouth Magistrates’ Court connected Monday.

Ms Chick, who was antecedently known arsenic Claire Butler, worked arsenic a lecturer astatine the University of Plymouth.

In a tribute released by police, Ms Chick’s household said they were “devastated and broken”.

They said: “She was the astir beauteous lively psyche and was determination for everyone.

“Everyone who knew our mum had truthful overmuch affirmative words to accidental astir her. She was the beingness and psyche of immoderate spot wherever she was.

“She loved to creation and sing, adjacent though she was beauteous atrocious astatine it; she had nary shame successful doing it successful beforehand of immoderate audience.

“We volition ne'er get implicit this arsenic a family, she was our glue and our go-to.

“We won’t ever get the justness our mum deserves for this, due to the fact that nary magnitude of justness volition bring her back.”

Vice-chancellor Professor Richard Davies said the assemblage was “shocked and saddened” by Ms Chick’s death.

He said: “Having spoken with Claire’s colleagues, I cognize that her publication to Plymouth was important and profoundly felt – she was a respected nurse, lecturer and idiosyncratic tutor, ensuring students were supported academically and pastorally.

“As subordinate caput of schoolhouse for planetary successful our schoolhouse of nursing and midwifery, she was intimately progressive successful processing nursing programmes, students and academics successful Europe, Africa and Asia.

“As a colleague, Claire’s humour and warmth volition beryllium dearly missed by world and enactment staff.”