A ‘gentle’ pensioner suffered ‘blunt force trauma’ to her head with her killer still on the loose.

The body of Rose Johnston, 68, was discovered at her terraced home in Dovecot on Saturday.

The great-grandmother was well known on her estate and regularly seen going on walks, according to police, who are asking for any suspicious people seen close to her home to be reported.

A Home Office post-mortem gave the tutor and special needs volunteer’s cause of death as a blunt force head injury.

A murder investigation was launched by Merseyside Police.

The Johnston family said: ‘Mum was kind, caring, compassionate, friendly, unassuming and gentle. She was so intelligent, funny and sarcastic.

‘Mum was a tutor working in adult education for many years and she spent recent years volunteering fo

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