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A COLD-hearted woman was jailed for life today after murdering her 92-year-old gran over her �7,000 savings. Twisted Sheila Jones, 36, must serve at least 22 years and six months after killing Daisy Myring in a "frenzied" attack. It came after Jones, from Norton Canes, Cannock, stole �7,000 from the pensioner. She killed Daisy to silence her when she became suspicious. Wolverhampton Crown Court heard Daisy suffered a number of blows to the head. She also had extensive bruising to her face and upper body � including two black eyes, a fractured collar bone and a dislocated shoulder joint. A carer found great-gran Daisy in the bedroom at her home in the Brownhills area of the West Midlands on May 31. She was taken to hospital but died hours later. Prosecutor Gareth Walters told the court that mum-of-two Jones had helped out with Daisy's care as well as "looking after her finances". Daisy � who was partially blind and suffered from a heart condition � also had four visits a day from professional carers who administered her medication. Mr Walters said that over a course of eight months last year Jones withdrew �6,800 from her grandmother's account in 14 separate transactions. She continued to withdraw money at the beginning of 2011 � making the total stolen from the account around �7000, the court was told. The court also heard that Jones, who admitted the killing, had gone to her gran's home at some time during the night of May 30 or the early hours of the next morning, with a torch and a pillow. Daisy had voiced concerns about Jones and her building society account to her carers and other family members, and was due to visit the building society on the day of her death. Mr Walters told the court she was "distraught" about the missing money and had sobbed to a carer about it. He said Jones had been intending to smother her grandmother during the night to prevent the theft coming to light. Mr Walter added that she was "hoping to put it down to Daisy's poor heart". The court heard that the pensioner, who had taken painkillers and sleeping tablets, was beaten with a plastic stool. Mr Walters said she also had defensive injuries to her hands and a bedside table had been knocked over, indicating a struggle. Brutal Sentencing Jones, Judge Philip Parker QC, said: "Daisy was on the floor clearly badly injured and asking for help. "Those were to be the last two hours of her life, and in those two hours she told people she had been attacked, somebody had hit her. "It is pretty plain that she did not know who it was." Addressing the defendant directly, he said: "You had gone to Daisy's home, knowing she would have been in bed having taken medication. "You went there that night because you must have realised that she was going to the Cheltenham and Gloucester building society the next day so you went there to stop that.