Dark Britain — 11 MONSTERS From The MIDLANDS That You Haven't Heard Of!

[00:00:00]Bees are the worst killers from the Midlands, both east and west, that we've had between 2016 and 2026. One of our victims was stripped naked and beaten to death in a park in the middle of the night. Another was all but decapitated.

[00:00:15]Our first case, meanwhile, involves 103 stab wounds.

[00:00:21]After telling his mother that he was about to go around to his ex-wife's house and kill both her and her new partner, 40-year-old Rhys Hancock, who comes from Wall in Darbishere, East Midland, disconnected his mother's landline phone, and then took possession of both the landline phone and his mother's mobile phone, plus her emergency buzzer, plus two knives, before leaving his mother's house in the early hours of New Year's Day 2020, and driving over to the home of 39 9-year-old Helen Almei, who was by this point using her maiden name because she had been known, of course, as Helen Hancock. He tells his mother that he knows he'll get 25 or 30 years for what he's about to do. At 4:26 a.m., the man himself called 999 to report his double murder, saying, "I've just stabbed them.

[00:01:11]There's blood everywhere." Moments before this point, you see, the man had entered Helen's home through the back door, gone to the bedroom, and inflicted a total of 103 stab wounds to his two victims combined. Helen's partner, having been 48-year-old father of two, Martin Griffiths. Helen got 66 stab wounds and Martin got 37. A paramedic who attended the home said it was the most violent incident he had ever seen and described the room as a blood bath.

[00:01:41]On the point of blood in court, the prosecution said that Hancock had killed in the coldest of blood. Hancock's mother had managed to call the police even though her son had taken her phones away and tell them of her son's murderous plans, urging them to go over to Helen's home straight away. They clearly didn't get there in time, sadly.

[00:02:02]When they did get there, they found the perpetrator outside the property covered in blood and casually commenting, "I'm hardly going to deny it. Look at me.

[00:02:11]Helen was a PE teacher. Hancock himself was none other than a headteer.

[00:02:17]As to Hancock's motive for the double murder, it was a matter of sexual jealousy. When in court, the judge concluded that she couldn't be sure that the murder was sadistic or sexual. She meant that she couldn't be sure that the actual physical act of murder necessarily sprang from a sexualization of extreme violence on the perpetrator's part. We have got one such case coming up mind. Stay tuned. On this point, not being fully certain that Hancock's murderous acts were either sadistic or sexual meant, according to the judge, that a whole life order was off the table. Instead, she gave the man life with a minimum of 31 years, condemning him for depriving two families of people that they loved, especially where Martin's two kids were concerned.

[00:03:06]Kirsty Carus is a bully. This is what drove her lover away, and that very sadly sealed the man's fate. But watch for the crazy twist to this story. But first, if I've got you hooked on the video so far, do subscribe, give the video a like, drop a comment when you're ready, and donate. Hit the thanks button below. I'll appreciate you.

[00:03:28]Whoa. This woman, 33-year-old Kirsty Carless from Kuk in Staffordshire, is walking with purpose. But what's she up to at this time of night? Dressed to hit scenes in perhaps her dressing gown and PJs.

[00:03:42]>> So Kirsty, I need to stand up for me, love.

[00:03:48]>> Kirsty, listen to us.

[00:03:49]>> Yeah.

[00:03:49]>> I'm arresting you for the murder of Lewis Price. Must caution see anything behind me defense if you do not mention my question. So much little court.

[00:03:56]Anything that you do to me begin evidence.

[00:03:58]>> Turn around for this me.

[00:04:00]>> Have you got anything that you shouldn't ask?

[00:04:01]>> No. No.

[00:04:03]So, who was the woman's victim? Louisie Price, a 31-year-old father of six, no less. And why did Carlos have it in for him to the point where she came away from being out with a friend of hers on Christmas Eve 2024, got a taxi to the man's home, calling the man no fewer than 45 times before she got there, then chased him around the garden of his home before stabbing him to death. Louisie and Carlos got involved with one another in 2021. Cara soon unraveling as a highly abusive partner. Abusive behavior in a relationship being found substantially less often in women than in men, but that hardly helps Louie Price. The woman prevented her boyfriend doing activities that he enjoyed like playing football and was also physically abusive towards him. Of the many violent incidents between the couple to which police had been called, the one in March 2023, however, led to Louie being arrested when Carass claimed that he had beaten her up. The woman later retracted her statement, however. On another occasion, a neighbor recalled seeing Carus strike price in the ribs with a metal pole outside her house. In November 2024, police came to the couple once again and found Louis reporting to them that Carlos had put his expensive [music] tracksuits in the bin and then pulled bleach over them. That's criminal damage. And then thrown a glass candle holder at him, pulled him down the stairs and choked him. Police considered the man to be at very high risk of domestic abuse. And there is body cam that shows Louie in tears telling an officer, "It's [snorts] effing embarrassing. This can't keep happening, man. Police charged Carles over these allegations from November [music] 2024, but subsequently released her on bail.

[00:05:54]Being bound to present herself in court over those allegations clearly didn't stop the woman later acting with murderous intent. It's not clear when Louis and the perpetrator split up, but one might imagine that it was recent enough for Carlo to feel jealous when she found out that Louisie was on Tinder. On Christmas Eve 2024, Carlos went to the pub with a male companion who we'll call Luke and had double vodka and Cokes along with cocaine.

[00:06:22]Afterwards, she went round to Luke's and had sex with the man three times before a female friend of hers sent her a screenshot of Louis Tinder profile at around 1:30 a.m. on Christmas Day.

[00:06:34]Carlos's next move was to call a taxi to take her home where once she arrived, she armed herself with a kitchen knife.

[00:06:42]Next, she called another taxi to take her to the home of Louis's parents in Norton Canes. Louisie was at that point living in a caravan in his parents' garden, you see. And no, I can't answer why he wasn't just staying in their house.

[00:06:55]>> Hello. Have a taxi, please.

[00:06:57]>> Uh, where's it from?

[00:07:01]>> Yeah. And where you going to?

[00:07:03]>> I'm going to Alm Road in Norton.

[00:07:05]>> It's going to be about 20 minutes.

[00:07:07]>> Yeah, that's fine. Bad.

[00:07:08]>> Thank you. See?

[00:07:10]While waiting for the taxi, Carlos made 45 calls to Price, as I mentioned earlier, that came between 2:15 a.m. and 2:44 a.m. She only briefly paused what the prosecution described as a barrage of calls because that is what that number of calls in that space of time is to contact the taxi company and check on her taxis ETA.

[00:07:34]After arriving at the address around 3:00 a.m., Carless asked the taxi driver to wait outside while she went into the property. She then charged up the path to the front door and let herself in with a key, expecting to find Louis in his caravan with another woman. You might wonder exactly as I do, a why the woman assumed that Louis having a Tinder profile would automatically mean that he was at that very moment sleeping with another woman. Okay, he didn't answer her calls by all accounts, but again, that doesn't automatically mean that he was shagging another woman. And B, given that Carlos herself had just shagged another man a number of times, how she could think that she had any right to protest that her ex-boyfriend might be sleeping with [music] someone new as well. Then again, we've learned that the woman was a violent bully, hardly a reasonable or rational individual. Ben.

[00:08:28]Moreover, her act of murder was motivated by anger and jealousy [music] and fueled by cocaine and alcohol.

[00:08:36]In the CCTV showing the woman chasing Louis around the garden, she'd [music] already fatally stabbed him. Louisie was subsequently discovered on the conservatory [music] floor with the single stab wound through his heart that Carlos had inflicted on him. The taxi driver reported for his part that about 30 seconds after Carlo entered the property, which she did, as I say, using a key that she had, he heard a very loud and prolonged scream. Carlo was anxious and sweating as she got back into the taxi less than 2 minutes after arriving.

[00:09:11]She asked the driver to take her to her parents' home where she confessed to them what she'd done and then they called the police. in [music] her testimony at her trial. Carla said she had no memory of stabbing Price, insisting that she wasn't a violent person, and she also stated that she'd only gone over to his address because she believed that he had taken money from a card that she kept at her home.

[00:09:34]She stated that she grabbed a knife to destroy the caravan where he was staying in his parents' backyard, and that after stabbing him, she panicked and [music] fled. These claims of hers, totally ludicrous claims, as you might imagine, were very easily disproved in in court, both by the CCTV and by numerous other pieces of evidence. Carlos was convicted on the 30th of July 2025 at [music] Stafford Crown Court. Firstly, of ABH, actual bodily harm against Louie, which came from the November 2024 incident, [music] and secondly of Louis's murder.

[00:10:09]On the 31st of July 2025 at Stafford [music] Crown Court, Carlos got life with a minimum of 25 years. Enjoying torturing and then killing your victim.

[00:10:20]That's what you'll see now.

[00:10:23]The murder of Brendan Mason, a 23-year-old from Leicester with learning difficulties, was a prolonged and brutal murder, much of which having been filmed by the killers. Having heard a rumor that a 15-year-old female friend of theirs had suffered some unwanted touching from Brendan in the early hours of the 5th of July 2016, [music] Keith Loan, 22, and Joshua Hack, 21, lured Brendan to Abby Park in Leicester.

[00:10:52]After Brendan walked up to the entrance, he was met by the pair who dismounted their push [music] bikes to lead Brendan inside. Brendan had no idea that he was walking into a trap. What happened next being nothing short of torture. Hack and Lo set upon Brendan with shocking brutality. I'll tell you now that Brendan had done nothing to the 15year-old [music] girl in question.

[00:11:15]That was attested later on by a witness.

[00:11:19]During the attack, Hacker though beat Brendan so severely that they believed that they had [music] broken his nose and jaw. They repeatedly kicked him in the back and left him blooded and [music] barely conscious. They stripped him naked and kept punching, kicking, and stomping on him. They took [music] videos in turn, one doing the videoing, one doing the battering.

[00:11:42]There was a point where Lo repeatedly [music] kicked Brendan in the head while taunting him, saying, "Move your hands from your face now so I can kick you."

[00:11:50]After that, the two took what is described in court as a trophy photo. In that photo, Lo is standing proudly behind Brendan, who's sitting cross-legged on the ground, naked and all blooded.

[00:12:04]After this came more beatings, all of it filmed. [music] And in one of those videos, Lo can be heard saying, "Look at him. Told you whatever he'd done to you, I do worse to you." There was a point when the two [music] battered Brendan together at the same time, and at least one of them was able to film their attacks on Brendan while they were both attacking him. In one of those videos, Brendan can be heard saying, "I'm choking." And he said that in a gasp. [music] In response to that, Lo called out his name. And after that, Hack mockingly said, "Here you go.

[00:12:39]Say smile." And then they held the phone near [music] Brendan's battered face and took a picture.

[00:12:44]Hack could be heard saying, "Shut him up before I shut him up." And then after [music] that point, the two attackers, killers, eventually went away, leaving Brendan, who was still alive at this point, but unconscious, at the foot of [music] a tree. At around 6:00 a.m. that day, a park groundsman found Brendan.

[00:13:05]Brendan was rushed to hospital, but he couldn't [music] be saved, having suffered no fewer than 99 injuries, including brain damage, broken ribs, collapsed lungs, and severe head and neck wounds. Hack returned to Abbeby Park a few days later, laying flowers at the scene alongside his friends. He was clearly trying to act sad as well as innocent, but this gesture of his was clearly an outrageous insult to Brendan and to Brendan's family. Moreover, in private, both Hack and Low, who already had a reputation for being violent, boasted to their friends about what they had done to Brendan and described in graphic detail [music] and with glee the individual acts of brutality that they had perpetrated against their victim. on being [music] arrested shortly after Brendan died. Loan, for his part, denied all involvement with the murder until police broke into his locked iPhone and found the various videos, which one could argue were effectively snuff films.

[00:14:06]At trial, after one of those videos was shown in court, Lo changed his plea from not guilty to guilty. The prosecution described the videos as trophies filmed [music] to present to others as a sadistic triumph. The judge agreed, calling the videos chilling, [music] deeply disturbing, and remorseless.

[00:14:24]Judge Michael Chambers said, "You subjected a vulnerable young man to extreme violence and humiliation. You [music] filmed each other assaulting him while he bled." In February 2017, Lo got life with a minimum of [music] 21 years, while Hack got life with a minimum of 20 years. Our next victims never saw their killer coming, and you'll soon understand why. [music] The two people murdered on the 30th of March 2017 by 24 year old Aaron Barley who comes from Sterbridge in the West Midlands were from a family who had taken the man in off the streets and given him a job in the family business.

[00:15:04]When Barley was sentenced for the murders of Tracy Wilkinson, 50, and her 13year-old son Pierce, the murders having taken place in the family home, he was told that he might never be released. The 24 year old admitted stabbing Mrs. Wilkinson 17 times with a kitchen knife as she lay in bed and then stabbing Pierce eight times. He then stabbed Peter Wilkinson, the man of the house, a number of times as he returned from walking the family dog. [snorts] The couple's 19-year-old daughter was away at university at the time. At no point did the murderer show any remorse for his actions. rather he told police that his only regret was that he didn't kill Mr. Wilkinson.

[00:15:48]Mrs. Wilkinson first spotted Barley sleeping in a cardboard box outside a Tesco in Ster Bridge in March 2016 and decided she wanted to help him. Barley himself, telling her he just needed a chance. Tracy and her husband Peter arranged for Barley to stay at a hostel for a few days. And Mr. Wilkinson. Peter Wilkinson, a company director who runs a safety barrier manufacturing firm, also gave the man a job at one of his businesses in Newport in South Wales.

[00:16:19]Barley underwent alcohol and drug rehabilitation and got himself a flat, popping round to the Wilkinsons every so often for breakfast or dinner. Some months later, however, the man was back on drugs and then on not turning up for work because of his drug abuse, he lost his job. By February 2017, the man got a job as a furniture polisher, only to be sacked a few weeks later on account that he just couldn't be bothered turning up as he was on drugs. Mr. Wilkinson returned home one day, a few weeks after that, to find Barley asleep like a bundle in the corner of the drive, as he puts it, and the family decided to help him again. for reasons that just aren't clear. On the 29th of March, Barley went round to the family home in disguise, hiding himself, and waited for an opportunity to get into the home to kill everyone there. There was no such opportunity on that occasion. So, he waited around overnight in the same area, keeping himself hidden, and then early on in the morning of the next day, he got his opportunity. I think he'd seen that Peter had gone out with the dog and at that point he broke in and did what he did to Tracy and Pierce and then when Peter returned we know what he did to him. Barley's parents were uncle and niece. His uncle dad then died of cancer when Barley was four while his cousin mother died of a heart attack two years later. Bali grew up after his mother's death in a circus of foster homes and homes of family members. He got kicked out of a children's home when he was 11 for fighting and for stealing.

[00:18:03]And what he stole at the age of 11 was the car of one of the staff members.

[00:18:09]Before the man met the Wilkinsons, he had gained 21 convictions for various offenses, including an assault on his former partner. When after meeting the Wilkinsons he attended an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center, he told the volunteers working there that he wanted to kill a police officer and a prison officer and that he wanted to do so with his favorite weapon of all, a knife. In the weeks leading up to his double murder, he posted on Facebook that I've got to go and try to get some help before I go on a killing spree. This came after he made violent threats about taking down his family and he made a post saying that on Facebook and wondering how many people he could kill [music] before getting caught. Barley's life sentence which he received in October 2017 initially came with a minimum term of 30 years. In December 2017, however, the minimum term was increased to 34 years. Beheading someone sounds medieval, but that didn't put our next killer off having a go at it.

[00:19:14]>> Ross, in relation to Megan, can you tell us where she is?

[00:19:19]>> Say again.

[00:19:20]>> Down police station.

[00:19:21]>> Tore down the police station.

[00:19:23]>> Can you tell us? Can you tell us here just quietly? 23-year-old Megan Nubra was both the work colleague and the casual sexual partner of the man who on the 6th of August 2021 stabbed her to death. That man was 29-year-old Ross McCullum. McCullum lived with his parents [music] and he had previously suffered from episodes of depression and had been diagnosed with ADHD. For his ADHD, he had been prescribed medication.

[00:19:53]But before the moment when he killed Megan, he'd stopped taking that medication. Megan and McCullen met at their place of work, which was a laboratory, and for a time they were in a casual relationship, which was of a sexual nature. They'd exchanged sexualized text messages in which [music] McCullum had suggested that their sexual activity could become a lot more rough. It appears that McCullum had disclosed both to Megan [music] and at Megan's suggestion to his manager at work that he'd been the victim of [music] child essay. On the 6th of August 2021, McCullum and Megan exchanged messages arranging to meet that evening for a sexual encounter at McCullum's home when his parents would be out. Megan [music] arrived just after 8:00 p.m. and they went into the living room. Within the next 30 to 40 minutes, she was strangled to death by the offender, who applied manual pressure to her throat for several minutes as she lay unconscious and dying or perhaps already dead. [music] The man collected a large knife from the kitchen and cut her throat. He inflicted a further number of wounds with such force [music] that postmortem examination revealed seven incisions to the front of the spine. So sorry cuz earlier I said he stabbed her to death. Well, he did two things. Stabbed her and strangled her.

[00:21:16]McCullum then spent some time cleaning the living room before changing his clothes and putting Megan's body into the passenger seat of her car. At some stage, he sent text messages to Megan's [music] phone to make it look like they'd spent a good time together, obviously trying to cover his tracks. He then drove to a remote area of open countryside. He discarded Megan's phone on Rude and put her body over a wall into Tangle's undergrowth. He then got rid of the blood stained clothing, both belonging to Megan and belonging to himself, left the car in a car park [music] with the keys lying on the ground nearby, and took a taxi home.

[00:21:53]Once he got back, he continued [music] to send misleading messages to Megan's phone. In the early hours of the following morning, [music] McCullen made internet searches, including in relation to serial killers. He repeatedly checked news websites and also went on unimotography to which he self pleasured.

[00:22:15]At around midday on the 7th of August, 2021, Megan's family reported her missing. Police officers spoke to McCullum and he initially claimed that Megan had left his home around 900 PM the previous evening and that he was worried that he hadn't heard from her.

[00:22:31]At some point he told them that he couldn't have taken her anywhere himself because he doesn't drive. Oh [music] yes he did.

[00:22:37]>> Hi. Is that Ross?

[00:22:39]>> Hi Ross. Yeah.

[00:22:40]>> Hi Ross. My name's Mia. I'm a police officer with Warikshire Police.

[00:22:46]Hello. Um we've just come to your mom and dad's house. Um we're just looking for Megan. She's been reported missing.

[00:22:52]Have you seen her at all?

[00:22:54]>> She came on Friday. I've been talking I've been trying to call her though. She came on She came on Friday for about an hour.

[00:23:01]>> Yeah.

[00:23:01]>> Then she she left about 9ish.

[00:23:05]>> Okay.

[00:23:05]>> I went to went to McDonald's.

[00:23:07]>> Yeah.

[00:23:07]>> And then she g me a call or a text when she got home. She never never did.

[00:23:12]>> D. What vehicle do you drive, Ross?

[00:23:15]>> Sorry.

[00:23:16]>> What vehicle do you drive?

[00:23:19]>> Company. What? No. What car do you drive?

[00:23:22]>> I don't drive.

[00:23:23]>> You don't drive? Okay.

[00:23:25]>> I don't have I don't have to drive.

[00:23:26]>> Oh, bless you.

[00:23:28]>> He was arrested later that very night, 7th of August. And at that point, he told the police where Megan's [music] body was. In interviews under caution, he accepted that he had murdered Megan, but denied that he planned to do [music] so. He said that their activities together brought to mind his childhood essay and that he'd been worried that Megan would tell others about what he had told her. He said that everything had suddenly gone crazy in his head and that he had told Megan to shut up and as a result of [music] which she'd slapped him which had made him push her, get on top of her and strangle her with all his might despite her struggles and please.

[00:24:07]He said that he had cut her throat to ensure [music] that she was dead. While awaiting trial, McCullum engaged in what can be considered an attempt to create a psychiatric [music] defense with a view to reducing his sentence while at the same time being her to make colorless remarks about Megan. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but that was rejected [music] by the prosecution. And he went to trial and was found guilty of Megan's murder. And in December 2022, he was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 23 years. The evil [music] coupled with the crazed and deluded mind of our next killer will leave you speechless.

[00:24:49]Having last been seen alive in the early hours of the 30th of January 2016 on the 31st of January, 20-year-old India Chip chase was found lying dead under a plastic sheet on a mattress in the home of a 52year-old man. Her death had been occasioned by both blunt force trauma and pressure to her neck consistent with strangulation. She had also been great, and the many injuries to her body, including the blood under her fingernails, showed that she had fought hard for her life. It turns out that Edward Tenniswood, a man who had lured this very pretty young woman away from a nightclub that she'd been kicked out of for being too drunk and then got her to go home with him in a taxi, was the single worst person that the young woman could have come across. At that moment, India was alone outside Envy's Club in Northampton, East Midlands, where there were lots of people around, including the bouncers, trying to call her friends who were inside the club and appearing highly upset and massively disorientated.

[00:25:55]About two minutes after Tenniswood, who was queuing to get in and who was wearing a duffel coat and carrying a rucks sack, which aren't the sorts of things you expect to see on someone going clubbing, started engaging with her, she found herself being walked away from the club and taken to a taxi with a man's arm around her. As to what the man did to her once he got her inside his home. At trial, the man claimed that he and India had developed a bond outside the nightclub and that he had told India that he was going home to have a drink and that she could come with him if she wanted to. He claimed that after India said yes, as she allegedly did, they got into a taxi together and that once they got to his, India went into his bathroom while he poured two glasses of wine.

[00:26:40]When she came back out of the bathroom, she seemed happier and more alert. He said that they then shared a tender moment opposite a large mirror in his bedroom in which quote, "She just happened to make this incredibly moving comment, just a sweet India thing to do." The two of us were framed in the mirror and she said, "It looks like we're in the middle of an oil painting."

[00:27:03]And she put her arm around me and she squeezed almost like we were posing for a selfie.

[00:27:09]I'll soon share the court's response to the man's outrageous testimony. The suggestion from the man indicated in the quotation that I've just cited that he and India had known each other intimately for some time being of course total rubbish. Tennis would testify to that after the said mirror moment. The pair had had loving and organic sex during which India placed his hands around her neck leading him in his overeagerness to satisfy her to squeeze her neck. He said he fell asleep soon afterwards not realizing that India had lost consciousness. When he later woke up, he discovered India not breathing and realized that she was dead. When Tennis would great and murdered India, he was out on bail following an al allegation of essay that had been made against him. Similarly, a woman came forward and said that when she was a teen, the man had throttled her and then forcibly kissed her and that on another occasion, he had pinned her down and held a knife to her throat. She had thankfully managed to kick him away and escape. However, all over the man's house were newspaper clippings of women with whom he was obsessed, which included British fashion model Heather Stewart White, who bore a striking resemblance to India.

[00:28:27]Heather later strenuously denied the perpetrator's claim that she had once been in a relationship with him. The man also kept a quantity of women's clothes and shoes in his home, viewing them as ornaments.

[00:28:41]Neighbors described the man as abusive and weird and commented that they had never seen him with any friends or girlfriends. They also mentioned that he had at one point a great many you know what a graphic pictures on display all over his home.

[00:28:57]In court, the perpetrator gave his evidence to the jury as if he were on stage. He appeared to enjoy the audience so much so that a police officer commented to a reporter that the man was getting off on it all. It was as if he was reliving everything and rewriting history. The judge repeatedly told him to keep his sentences short, but he refused, going into tasteless and inapprop inappropriate detail. The man talked about bringing a dummy into court to illustrate a point and said he drank so much the day he met India that his body contained more wine than blood. At one point, the judge asked jurors to leave the courtroom because India's relatives were visibly upset by Tenniswood's graphic testimony. The man was argumentative with the judge and with barristers and frequently became angry and went off topic.

[00:29:48]The jury found the perpetrators claims of consensual sex and strangulation being a result of quote overeagerness to satisfy India in bed unquote absurd.

[00:30:00]Their guilty verdicts coming after a deliberation of less than two hours. The judge himself told Tenniswood that he did what he did purely to satisfy his own sexual desires on an attractive and much younger woman and that it was a crime of utter depravity. He stressed that tennis word had prayed on India when she was vulnerable and clearly took advantage of her vulnerability and the reason he strangled her was because she was fighting him off when he was trying to grape her. In August 2016, Tenniswood got life with a minimum of 30 years. His 12 years for grape is running concurrently to the 30 years cuz he was 52 when he did what he did to India. He might die before his 30 years are up.

[00:30:45]And even if he doesn't, he might just never win parole. Committing rape and murder together shows your twisted desire for total dominance over your victim, doesn't it, Craig Kio?

[00:30:58]Someone in the caravan, PLEASE OPEN the door.

[00:31:05]Someone in Got someone 617. Got someone in the caravan in back.

[00:31:12]PLEASE OPEN THE DOOR.

[00:31:16]SOMEONE WITH A DARK HAIR in there.

[00:31:22]>> Don't know.

[00:31:28]Right. Don't move, mate. What's your name? Craig. Stay there.

[00:31:34]Come out.

[00:31:35]Craig. Right. Hands behind back.

[00:31:45]What's your name?

[00:31:46]>> Craig. Craig. Craig. Craig. Craig here.

[00:31:51]I'm 617. I've got Craig investigation. You don't have to say anything.

[00:31:59]Something later.

[00:32:02]You understand?

[00:32:05]when 26-year-old Craig Kon was arrested for the murder of 72year-old Jane Hings.

[00:32:12]The murder having taken place on the 24th of September 2017 [music] in Jane's very own home, a bungalow in Fleckne in Leicester. The man told police [music] that Jane had paid him 200 quid for sex and that he had left her alive and well.

[00:32:29]What he really did was to grape Jane twice before smothering her to death.

[00:32:34]Afterwards, he stole a load of her stuff, mainly jewelry, [music] which he sold the next day and got cash for them.

[00:32:41]Jane's body was found later on on the 24th of September by two carers. Jane had no living family. Her husband had died and so had everyone else in her family. It was just her and her dog. and her murder came just a few weeks after she got out of a nursing home after suffering a fall. She was very vulnerable and completely defenseless against Craig before brutally graing [music] Jane. That's how the judge put it and we've got no reason to doubt that Craig had actually made an untidy search of the woman's bungalow and then after he murdered her, he stole her wedding ring and engagement ring and also ripped a crucify from her neck. Those [music] are the things that he sold the next day. And with the money, he took his mates out and bought them meals and drinks [music] and other treats. In court, all that was used against him.

[00:33:33]The act of going out with his mates and treating them with the money that he'd got by stealing from a lady that he'd murdered showed that he had no remorse whatsoever and that he was in fact an [music] extremely callous person. Craig used to work in a factory. He knew Jane because he lived in a caravan not far from her home in Elizabeth Road and he had walked her dog Paddyy on several occasions and done other odd jobs for her. So [music] we can imagine the betrayal that she felt when he came into her home and did the things that he did as well as the terror and the horror and the pain and the agony. The man was linked to the crime by DNA evidence because he left behind his baseball cap and a tongue bar in Jane's home. Jane had [music] a friend called Michelle who came to the trial every day to hear the evidence. I should tell you that Craig [music] himself didn't testify at trial and Jane said, "It's heartbreaking and shocking the level of violence that was used against Jane. I think about it most days. It plays on my mind what she went through, the horrific pain and how scared she must have been." On the 20th of March 2018, Craig [music] got life with a minimum term of 32 years. And I should have pointed out earlier that he [music] did what he did to Jane after getting high on cocaine on a night out.

[00:34:50]I'll tell you also though that being in a state of intoxication when you commit a [music] criminal offense and trying to raise the argument that you wouldn't have done what you did if you hadn't been in a state of intoxication gets you nowhere. Far from being a defense or even a mitigation, it is an aggravating factor that usually lengthens a sentence. When you walk into a house of horror, don't expect to ever walk out again. That's next. [music] >> We're looking for a female missing person who's been missing for about 11 days. Okay. We've got pizza on CCTV with someone that matches your description with her. So, we just want to get some details from her.

[00:35:30]>> She's been missing for 11 days.

[00:35:32]Obviously, we need to find her.

[00:35:33]>> Okay.

[00:35:35]And because you you look like the person we've seen on CCTV, we just get some details off.

[00:35:41]>> Regarding the murder of Julia Rosson, a lady of the age of 42 that took place in Dudley in the West Midlands in May 2019.

[00:35:50]The judge of the murder trial said Miss Rson couldn't have known that she was about to enter a flat of horrors, but she must have realized this very soon after she went in. Nathan Maynard Ellis, age 30, chatted Julia up in a pub and then took her home. When he got her home, the man and his boyfriend, 25-year-old David Leley, murdered Julia and then they hid her body in undergrowth.

[00:36:18]Maynard Ellis was also found guilty when this came to trial of grape charges relating to another woman. The four grapes, the attempted grape, and the threats to kill, all against this woman, were revealed when the woman came forward, which she did after learning of Maynard Ellis's arrest for murder. Both Maynard Ellis and Nest Lei admitted perverting the course of justice and concealing a body, but denied murder.

[00:36:45]Maynard Ellis had a fascination with decapitation and horror films and had been addicted to fantasies about the sexualized killing of women. His victim would have seen swords and spiders mounted on the walls of the Typton flat, reptiles kept in tanks, and gory face masks of horror film characters. Tracy Barrett, a neighbor of the two killers, told reporters that the two men's flat was the making of horror stories with Freddy Krueger figures and Chucky dolls.

[00:37:16]Police said that Mayard Ellis had gone out the night of the murder with the aim of finding a victim. And unfortunately for Julia Rosson, that victim was her.

[00:37:26]Julia was struck several times on the head. Her remains including her severed head, hands, and feet were found in two different locations. One near a canal and one on wasteland. I don't know which bits were found where, but those were the two locations. After identifying Mayard from CCTV when he was with Julia in the pub, he was arrested on suspicion of kidnap and officers discovered a blood stain underneath a new underlay in the living room of the couple's flat.

[00:37:56]Julia, who was reported missing by friends, came from a close-knit family and was a talented musician and a fun-loving character. She was often seen with paint splashes on her face, which was a sign that she'd been doing one of her other important hobbies, painting, of course. In December 2020, Mayard Dis got life with a minimum of 30 years, while Lesley got life with a minimum of 19 years. Just when Kieran Daldia thought she was escaping her ex-husband once and for all, he strangled her to death. [music] On the 16th of January 2017, 51-year-old Ashwin Daldia, who comes from Leicester in the East Midlands, strangled his ex-wife, Kieran Daldia, to [music] death and then packed her body into a suitcase and dumped it near a neighbor's house. The very day of the murder was the same day that their former marital home was being sold to Kieran's sister. Kieran herself was due to stay on in the house while Ashwin was meant to move out. When Kieran got home from work though, she could see quite easily that [music] Ashwin hadn't packed and was showing no signs of moving out.

[00:39:04]And that caused [music] a heated argument between the two. In the course of the argument, somehow Ashwin got hold of the scarf that his wife was wearing and he squeezed it around her neck and that is how he strangled her to death.

[00:39:18]He later told the court that he lost control after she shouted at him to leave and allegedly hit him and that he strangled her in self-defense. I I'm under the impression that Kieran was actually a very small built lady. She was quite short and she was slim. And [music] likewise, I'm under the impression that Ashin was a lot bigger and a lot stronger. So the idea that he was scared of her and [music] killed her in self-defense strangulation, resulting in someone's death taking actually several minutes usually, you know, just doesn't hold up. And of course, the jury [music] didn't believe him for a second.

[00:39:53]On the point of Ashwin's violent behavior, he Ashwin and his ex-wife Kieran got married in an arranged marriage back in 1998. And they got divorced in 2014. And they had two sons.

[00:40:09]One at the time of Kieran's murder was 17, the other was 25. And it had been a very violent and abusive marriage. all the violence and abuse coming from Ashwin beat up if his wife beat up his [music] sons. In court, one of his sons was asked if they could remember any single act of kindness from his father and the son said no. After strangling Kieran to death, Ashwin cleaned the room to hide any sign of what had happened.

[00:40:37]He put a plastic bag over Kieran's head to conceal the blood, and he left the body in the front room. When their 17-year-old son returned home from college, [music] Ashwin pretended nothing had happened. Later that night, while his son was upstairs, the man wheeled the suitcase into which he'd crammed [music] his ex-wife's dead body uh into the street and left it in the yard of a nearby house. And there [music] is CCTV footage that captured him doing that. Forensic investigators found [music] traces of blood that he had tried to wipe away. And pathologists recorded [music] 18 separate injury sites on Kieran's body. In court, Ashwin was described as an arrogant bully [music] who had tried to cover up a premeditated attack. And the judge said that he had shown selfishness and violence on a wicked scale. And [music] he added that he had stripped Kieran of any remaining dignity even in death. On the 2nd of February 2018, the man got life with a minimum term of 18 years.

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