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Sarah Ferguson's killer aide Jane Andrews' quiet new life – after lover's brutal cricket bat murder
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Killer royal aide Jane Andrews has a new life helping sick animals. Our snaps show Andrews, now 57, shuffling to work in a blue uniform. It is a far cry from her once-glittering life rubbing shoulders with VIPs when she was the Duchess of York’s dresser. One local said: “You’d never guess she’d been a key part of royal life.” The pictures come as an ITV drama about her story is in the pipeline. Andrews, then 33, beat her wealthy boyfriend Tom Cressman in bed with a cricket bat and plunged a kitchen knife into his chest. Her 2001 trial heard she flew into a rage at their flat in Fulham, West London, after Tom, 39, refused to marry her and ended their relationship. Now released from her life sentence, Andrews is working for a charity-funded animal hospital. Approached near her home, she declined to comment. But last night Tom’s brother Rick said his killer had been able to carry on with her life while her victim’s family remains consumed with grief. When asked about her charity work, hotelier Rick told us: “I can never be sympathetic. “She’s served her sentence. I can only say she has a life to continue with but the sentence for me and my family continues for the rest of our lives.” He said he had concerns over the upcoming four-part TV drama, especially after the producers, Left Bank Pictures, who also made The Crown, said it would pose the question: “Who is the real Jane Andrews?” Rick said: “It’s an ongoing concern. Four years ago ITV did a documentary which was done in an underhanded and dishonest way. It was a disgraceful documentary. It was trying to rewrite justice, we took great objection to that.” He said he has received “a lot of reassurance” this would not happen again. “The worry is they will dramatise and fictionalise something that happened. It is very important that the truth is maintained. “It is very important they don’t try to rewrite justice and the truth. It is risky territory that they are going down with a murder situation. It is a concern how he’s portrayed. It is important that we see and feel the real person Tommy was.” Rick said he was seeking a meeting with Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood to discuss justice for victim’s families. Rick said: “I wake up and all I see is myself in Fulham morgue identifying my brother, it’s very hurtful. “Something needs to be done for the victims of crime, for those who might be put through something like this in the future. The victims of crime do deserve better treatment.” TV bosses say their drama, called The Lady, “charts the rise and fall of former royal dresser Jane Andrews, whose rags-to-riches fairytale fell apart when she was convicted of murder”. Andrews had a humble upbringing in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, and landed a job with the Duchess of York when she was 21 by responding to an advert anonymously posted in The Lady magazine. The two formed a firm friendship. Sarah affectionately dubbed her “Lady Jane” and they stayed on good terms even after she lost her job in 1997. In September 2000, she went on holiday to Italy and the French Riviera with tycoon Tom, her boyfriend of nearly three years. She had expected him to propose marriage but he crushed her hopes. The day after their return, Andrews killed him in the early hours as he slept in bed and then went on the run. Police hunted her for four days and found her in her car in Cornwall overdosed on painkillers. During the search, Fergie left her two voicemails, urging her to give herself up. Andrews claimed she had no involvement in Tom’s death and said he was being blackmailed. She denied murder at her 2001 Old Bailey trial, which heard of her history of depression and severe mood swings. Andrews accused Tom of being abusive and claimed she killed him by accident in self-defence. But the jury found her guilty and the judge who sentenced her to life said: “In killing the man you loved you ended his life and ruined your own.” During 14 years behind bars fellow lags reportedly dubbed her “Fergie’s bird”. Nowadays Andrews is seen most mornings starting a day-long shift at an animal hospital that offers free treatment to pets of hard-up owners. It has dozens of dog and cat kennels and also offers a bereavement service. One visitor left a glowing review saying: “Staff go above and beyond.”
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