The mum with a heart of gold betrayed in the most brutal way

As a protective sibling, Amber Thompson had a bad feeling about Peter Pitt from the moment she met him. Pitt began a relationship with her elder sister Charlene Mills about eight years ago.

Charlene was ‘smitten’ with him. She was so taken with Pitt, a heroin user, that when her partner claimed to be in too much pain to source his drugs for himself, Charlene, a mum, would approach dealers herself, according to her family.

All Charlene did was love Pitt. She was verbally abused by him during their relationship. Then she was betrayed in the most cruel and horrendous way.

They had split up by September 2023. But Charlene was apparently keen to ‘rekindle’ their relationship.

She had spent a Friday night with him in the bedroom he lived in, within a shared house in Gorton. Charlene, 43, would not leave the house alive. Pitt strangled her to death and left her in his bed, before the tragedy was discovered the next morning.

Speaking after 52-year-old Pitt, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was sentenced after he admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility, Amber told the Manchester Evening News: "It was about eight years ago, something like that they met. I’m not sure how they met.

“I didn’t like him. He is a heroin user. I don’t have time for heroin users in my life.

"My sister had a heart of gold and wanted to help him because that’s what he told her he wanted to do. When he met her, he was giving her a whole story of how he is drug dependent, but he wanted to get better and find the right woman to settle down with, and apparently that was my sister.

“She was fixated on getting him better when you cannot help somebody like that. That was my view from the start till the end, and even until now. There’s no