strangle

strangle: v. choke to death, throttle by compressing the windpipe and preventing the intake of air, asphyxiate; stifle, suppress

Lorelle Makin, 48, had been due to meet a client at the house in Melton at lunchtime yesterday, but last night the mother-of-two was found strangled in a bathroom of the vacant two-storey home


[ Man charged over strangling ]