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in April 2003 the Emergency Services were called to a Strang looking fire on Wigan halt common in West Sussex police
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found the burning body of missing 31-year-old special educational needs teacher and musician Jane Longhurst
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she's been found naked with a scarf covering her face and a pair of tights tied round her
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neck Jane had been strangled by her best friend's boyfriend greme Coots I don't
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know what snapped I don't know what was going on in his mind where he's made the
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leap from Pure Fantasy to living out his fantasy and taking somebody's life in
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the most horrific way as evidence piled up against Coots he claimed to have killed Jane by
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accident in a sex game gone wrong keeping her body in a storage unit for 5 weeks he was a necrophiliac he found
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sexual pleasure in the thought of dead women as the police investigation against him gathered momentum Graham
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Coots proved himself to be one of the world's most evil killers [Music] [Music]
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on Friday the 14th of March 2003 Jane Longhurst left the home she shared with her boyfriend Malcolm in Brighton East
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Sussex she telephoned her best friend Lisa but it was Lisa's boyfriend Graham
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CS who answered in fact her friend was working that day uh CS answered the phone and
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suggested that they went swimming together that was a very common thing between the young
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couples I can only believe that Jane never saw Graham Coots her friend Lisa's
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boyfriend is anything of a threat why should she they were friends what Jane Longhurst didn't
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know was the psychiatric background of her friend Graham CS Jane never made it to the swimming
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pool she went with Coots to the ho flat he and his girlfriend shared unaware of what he was planning to do
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this killer Story begins in Scotland only child Graham Coots was born on the 23rd of April 1968 in Le
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F CS went to a local school and then in fact the family moved South he was not a
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particularly Bright Child his passion if there was one was to become a guitarist
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I think he saw himself as a sort of rock star from his early teens Graham CS displayed
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worrying signs of a dysfunctional sexual appetite there's quite a strong history
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with graham Coots of problems with his sexual behaviors we can see that it started very young he knows what is
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turning him on and he is using pornography a very very young age the earlier in age that these things start
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to manifest the more likely that it's going to become a much bigger problem further down the line it appears that
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grae CS actually was addicted to extreme pornography death bias fix all this stuff and he I think since the age of 15
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had a real real thing about those forms of sexual fantasy in 1991 at the age of 23 Graham
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Coots confided in his GP that he was having elaborate sexual fantasies about killing women Dr Larry culliford was the
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psychiatrist who saw Coots in hve where he was then living I seem to remember being perhaps
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surprised that this was a person who didn't necessarily want to change you know he was having troubling
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thoughts but was he really un comfortable with them or actually did he entertain them that's a question I
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didn't know the answer to and and still don't he investigated sexual pornography
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of the type that he was interested in and there you sort of feeding the impulses rather than seeking
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to reduce the strength of them Dr culford concluded that Graham CS needed specialist help but Coots was
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never seen by anybody else I think if Graham CS had been seen by a forensic psychologist he would have
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probably been invited to undertake a battery of psychological tests and some formal risk assessment whether to
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consider him a risk to others the mental health legislation is such that you can't lock everybody up who might commit
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crime so the probability is that he would have been free to go at that point instead of getting treatment
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Graham CS took his fantasies to the next level acting them out on a string of local women he was going about meeting
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women trying to get them involved he basically would get turned on by pressing his hand round women's necks
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one of his ex-girlfriends said that he had pages and pages of pornographic material with a handdrawn noose on on
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the women's neck so clearly there was something very wrong in his psyche the
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warning signs were clearly there Graham cs's dark impulses had reached a turning point when you think
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about whether he might have taken a different journey through life I think it's unlikely he wasn't steering himself
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from that path he was intensifying whatever it was that was going on in his head with his
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pornography use by actually indulging in those fantasies with his girlfriends and for somebody who's doing
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that and in actually enjoying distress I don't see how that can't be a red
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flag in 1997 cs's sexual dysfunction escal ated further when he was charged with spying
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on a woman in a swimming pool changing room in East grinstead Sussex we do have him being caught filming somebody in a
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swimming pool so he's being covert he's being predatory he's being inappropriately sexual in a public place
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now it's highly unlikely that was the first time that he'd done that the case went to magistrates but
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Coots was able to persuade the magistrates that he had done nothing wrong the victim of this kind of
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unwanted attention was so concerned that she she contacted the um justices of the
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peace but he was never brought to account for this this was the man who came into the
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life of special educational needs teacher and talented musician Jane Longhurst in
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2001 Graham Coots was living in move with his girlfriend Lisa when he met 31-year-old Jane and her boyfriend
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Malcolm Lisa and Jane were friends the four of them Lisa and Jane and Graham and Malcolm would socialize
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they would play tennis Jane and Graham would go swimming together Jane Longhurst was an
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accomplished Viola player and teacher living with her boyfriend of four years in Brighton East
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Sussex Jane Longhurst was really everyone's ideal daughter she was hardworking she was talented she was
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very close to her mom she taught her school in Cambridge before moving to Brighton she was in every sense the best
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of the best originally from reing Jane was close to her mother Liz and her sister Sue who still live there
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I think Liz was full of admiration for her daughter she was deeply loved Jane Longhurst was kind and
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thoughtful person who was well liked had lots of friends and she was happy and content she had a lovely life she was
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planning to start a family so you know she had everything to live [Music] for Graham Cs on the other hand was not
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having the success he'd imaged for himself so gra CS was a bit of a loser a Drifter who'd gone through life wanted
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to be a professional musician but failed at it he had to work as a doorto door salesman for a a cleaning company he
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just wanted to be in a band but he wasn't up to it he wasn't a great success in life Jane never saw Graham
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Coots just anything of a threat she had no reason to suspect him she didn't know
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did he had a history of addiction to pornography that he'd been fascinated since the age of 15 in strangling young
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women how could she and yet he was the most Dreadful threat to her on the morning of Friday the 14th of
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March 2003 Jane left her flat on shury Road in Brighton on her day off her boyfriend and Malcolm was the
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first person to raise the alarm to Jane's mother Liz when she failed to return
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home he phoned her mother to see she'd heard from Jane phoned the orchestra that they both played with no sign of
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her it was most unusual this wasn't something that Jane did she was you know
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very upright very orderly young woman this was absolutely out of character Malcolm looked for her himself
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in Brighton places they might have visited together didn't find her with still no sign of Jane into the
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early hours of the following day worried boyfriend Malcolm reported her missing to Sussex police like any police
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investigation they're looking to find out what has happened to the missing person
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and their lines of inquiry will immediately fall upon the people who are closest to Jane lur because you know
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most murders are carried out by people who are known it's a boyfriend is interrogated
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at length it's pretty intimidating you know the girl you clearly are very fond of has gone
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missing and you're suddenly in the frame for having done something to her or but no one
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including Malcolm who come up with any explanation about why Jane had gone missing you know there was nothing in
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her background which suggested that she wanted to vanish from her life that she clearly loved so obviously the police
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were immediately suspicious that something was very a Miss 48 hours after Jane's Last contact
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her missing person's case was referred to the criminal investigation department
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investigators analyzed Jane's bank and phone records looking for Clues as to
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her whereabouts no money had been withdrawn from her account over the weekend and no
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phone calls had been made since the morning of her disappearance this raised further
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concerns over Jane's safety the last call from Jane's phone on Friday at
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10:05 a.m. was to the home of her friend Lisa and Lisa's boyfriend Graham Coots Graham told police Jane had called
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looking for Lisa he denied having seen Jane that morning the police made extensive
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inquiries and they couldn't find anything and they spoke to Coots and they spoke to his
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partner nothing and there were no signs of had happened to her and it's a difficult job there for the police
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because they don't know whether this is simply somebody who maybe wandered off
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as a missing person or whether it's more serious than that because they didn't
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have a body or any scientific evidence that would show that she'd come to harm with still no sign of Jane 5 days
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after her disappearance on Wednesday the 19th of March Sussex police launched operation Keen to find her they draft in
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extra offices they go house to house they start a careful search it doesn't reveal
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anything and after two weeks they are forced to conclude that this may not be simply a missing person
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investigation that it may actually be a murder investigation for five agonizing weeks
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Jane remained missing then on Saturday the 19th of April a motorist made a horrifying discovery on
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Wigan halt common in West Sussex 20 M from Jane's Brighton home a local man sees a fire in the brush and it's got
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strange color flames and in De calls the fire brigade they discover that the source of
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this fire is a body it is sadly the body of Jane Longhurst she's been found naked with a
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scarf covering her face and a pair of tights tied round her neck there is no doubt in anyone's mind Jane Longhurst
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has been murdered so far police have no motive for this murder they don't know whether
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or not Jane knew her killer but they are determined to hunt down the person who carried out this brutal crime the police
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believe she was murdered some weeks before and a body preserved somewhere cold the police say however much the
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killer tried to hide Jane's body it would have been difficult to disguise as
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he brought it here they want people to cast their minds back to anything suspicious there's very few cases where
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an individual has done what he's done and then deposited the body and set far
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it without some body close to that person knowing that something's not quite
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right the discovery of Jane's body was the worst possible end to her family's
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hellish weight this longer is only just a widow getting over the death of a much
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loved husband from Alzheimer's so you know it's absolute body blow for the
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family really to have this beloved daughter who she so close to going missing in such appalling circumstances
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and for so long before the body was found that must have been just Dreadful state of
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[Music] limbo no one can prepare you for something so terrible to lose a l one in
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such a way cannot Ever Be Imagined and we would not wish what we are going through on anyone we have lost someone
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who was very loved and so special pleas please if you think you know something then find in your
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conscious to call the police with no suspects in what was now a murder investigation the forensics
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team would tasked with uncovering what had happened burning a body isn't very
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common but when it does occur it's usually in an attempt to try and disguise identity and try and dispose of
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the body body now identification of burning remains can be tricky but there are several things which we can use in
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Jane Long her's case the body was identified through dental records that would be using the expertise of a
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forensic odontologist comparing her the tee of the deceased with any dental records
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which were H in her name having confirmed Jane's identity the next question for forensic analysis
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was the cause of death when the body was discovered there was a pair of tights around the neck now as a pathologist
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that would be very supportive of the use of a ligature strangulation so using an
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item such as a rope or a bout or in this case a pair of tights putting those around the neck and then pulling them
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tightly the ligature that causes the blood to cease going to the brain with the forensic investigation
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underway the police Revisited the people closest to Jane to eliminate the from suspicion on April 24th a detective
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Constable interviewing Coots at his home for a second time noticed a crucial detail that turned the investigation on
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its head they saw some boxes there which were for the from the cleaning products
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company and those were similar to the boxes that her body was found in it was an important discover y for
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investigators Graham Coots was suddenly the prime suspect in the brutal murder of Jane
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Longhurst with no solid Alibi for the night in question Sussex police were confident they'd found their man as the
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eyes of the nation watched on the police investigators focused their efforts on their Prime Suspect Graham Coots
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detectives had grown suspicious of Coots when they found cardboard boxes that match ones from the crime scene at his
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flat and because he couldn't provide a solid Alibi for the night in question CS
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was arrested on April the 24th 2003 but in police custody he refused to admit to
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any wrongdoing how would you describe your relationship with J um friend anything more no when did you
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last see before the came over and the last time you spoke to Jane without a confession or more
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evidence to support their suspicions the police could only hold Coots for 24 hours and he was released the following
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day turning to the public for help detectives ramped up their search for evidence that might link Coots to Jane's
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murder one week after Jane's body was found police are hoping these drivers will give them the vital clue they need
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their motorists who may have been using this road last week they may have seen something which could lead police to
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Jane's killer early evening on a Saturday at the same time as last week when police beli Jane Longhurst body was
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brought to this West susi's Beauty Spot where it was dumped and set a light it
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was a light evening on the bank holiday weekend police are convinced someone would have seen what happened here all
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these motorists will be stopped and questioned as to whether they were here last week um just to try and Jog their
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memories to anything at all that that is out of the ordinary anything they may have noted that may give us just that
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significant lead on the 28th of April Sussex police received the call they'd been waiting
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for the manager of a local storage company reported a strange smell coming from a unit and a man calling himself
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Paul Kelly acting suspiciously so when the manager of the storage company saw reports in the media about Jane
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Longhurst being missing he kind of put two and two together initially he thought it was a smell of a dead pigeon
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or some other dead animal but the fact that they have got a missing woman and there's a foul smell coming from a
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storage unit I think he thought the information was significantly important and that the police should at least
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check check it out when Sussex police came to check the CCTV footage they saw Paul Kelly was in
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fact their main suspect Graham Coots it turns out to have been none other than Graham Coots using a false
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name and he's had the storage facility for about 28 days CPS acquired the storage unit with
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through a very simple process of using false information somebody turns up with a utility bill another
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identification uh they accepted at face value gaining entry to cs's storage unit
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the police made a shocking Discovery the police open the storage facility hard by Paul Kelly stroke
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Graham cots and discover Jane's clothing a male shirt with blood and seamen on it
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and a condom they also found Jane's swimming costume her cell phone purse and a gas
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can forensic analysis revealed Jane's DNA on both the bloodstained top and the
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used condom which also contain cs's seen CCTV footage showed CS had made multiple visits to the unit when Jane
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was missing the evidence was overwhelming police finally had the proof they needed to arrest cots for a
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second time the 35-year old was arrested here just after 9:00 last night without
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a struggle the police say he was one of the men they had already questioned when
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Jane disappeared and it Dawns on the police that it's entirely possible that Coots has kept Jane's
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body in that story St facility for up to 5 weeks the day before Jane's body was
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discovered in the woods CCTV footage showed Coots had moved a large cardboard box from his unit into a van he had just
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had a very large box with him you couldn't tell what was in it there was evidence at the storage
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unit to suggest that what was in the box had been a corpse on April the 30th Graham CS was
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charged with murder at Brighton magistrates court and put on remand with Coots in custody detectiv
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seized his home computer and uncovered the disturbing truth about him not only did he appear to be kind of porn
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addicted he was obsessed with women's neck and he was obsessed with strangulation when the police were able
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to obtain the details of the websites that he was paying for access to the contents of his computer filled the Gap
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as it were as to why this happened in the way that it did because he was looking at all this
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necrophilia Graham Coots had found sexual pleasure in the thought of dead women and he was
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paying to subscribe to websites which contain that sort of material so his girlfriend didn't know
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that nobody knew that and that only came to light once he was arrested and of course his computer was
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seized and then that material was found it was a shocking development in the case but despite the mounting
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evidence against him CS refused to admit to any crime then several weeks after Coots was arrested there was a
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breakthrough to everyone's surprise CS actually admits that he killed her and
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says and here is the most heinous part of it all it was only a matter of con sensual
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sex that had gone wrong Coots claimed that Jane Longhurst had died at his flat on the 14th of
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March 2003 the date of her disappearance he said they'd stop by his home on their
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way to go swimming together they were driving to the Leisure Center and he said I just need to pop into the flat
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the only that we have of what went on in the flat is his account where he said they started
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kissing they went to the bedroom and they started having consensual sex without a word being said
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between them and he said that just by a nod she agreed to breath control play during the course
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of the sexual intercourse and um he used a ligature around her neck accidentally she died in that
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process was his account I don't believe for one minute that there was consensual sex that went
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wrong going on between Jane and Graham Coots not given his history not given the way that he was
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escalating after Jane's death C had stored her body in his shed before moving it to the storage facility on the
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25th of March just days after his first interview with the police it was a storage facility where people typically
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will store their belongings if they're moving house or if they need to clear
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out a property so he' basically put a body in a box um which had fragile written on
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it he kept a number of her belongings as a trophy and he also kept a condom that contained material that
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would be consistent with him having had sex with her but he put everything in there including all her effects he
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then visited her regularly there for about a period of 6 weeks but sickeningly Coots wasn't just visiting
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the storage facility to make sure Jane's body was still there the detectives had
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evidence to show that Graham cson visited the body of Jay Longhurst in in in the Yellow Box Storage Unit 10 or 11
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times initially he just had ordinary daytime access to it and clearly he then changed to 24hour
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access so that he could be there when there were no staff there he was recorded visiting these extreme
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pornography sites shortly after visiting the body U so it was quite clear that this this man was acting out a a
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perverse and deeply sickening sexual fantasy not only in in real time but long after Jane had been so brutally
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murdered it is the most chilling thought of all he's paid for out of hours access
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so that he doesn't have to always be seen when he's visiting Jane's remains it it's truly
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horrifying eventually after storing Jane's body for 5 weeks Coots knew he had to try and hide the truth of what
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had happened to her and then because of the state of the body he went in late at
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night and there there was a very good CCTV of him with a pallet truck taking a large box out putting it in the back of
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his car and he drove to West Sussex and set a light to her body there Graham cs's confession to strangling
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Jane and hiding her body was a pivotal moment in the investigation but despite the evidence
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against him CS was going to plead not guilty the detectives had to prove that this was no accident there was no sex
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game that had gone wrong prosecutors would need to show to a jury that there was a motive for
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murder it seemed to me to to be a compelling case where he was the person who had not only murdered her but kept
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her body for his own purposes thereafter and then disposed of it during the 11-day trial the defense
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argued that Jane's death had been an accident but the prosecution contradicted cs's version of events with
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forensic evidence that they claimed proved otherwise a key part of the evidence came down to understanding the
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nature of the act that had caused her death the defense would argue that the Brief Encounter of the pressure being
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applied to the neck has caused death rapidly however in reality that's very unlikely death doesn't occur quickly it
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occurs over several minutes with sustained pressure to the neck and the victim would certainly be showing signs
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they're struggling now if it was a consensual act you'd expect the person in
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inflicting that act to then realize that oh this isn't right and I should stop
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but obviously in this case that didn't occur he my sister's reputation being
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slurred as a form of Defense totally unacceptable and very difficult to endure journalist Helen
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Carter covered the trial he claimed that it was consensual sex that had gone wrong and that she was a willing
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participant in this sort of asphixiation which was a complete lie it was pure gaslighting they weren't involved in a
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relationship she was planning her life with her boyfriend away from Sussex and she was hoping to become a
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mother while the facts of his actions were presented in court CS showed little emotion CS pleaded not guilty throughout
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he was a remarkably calm man as I recall I think always believed that he was going to be found
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not guilty Graham CS would like to convince the jury that he was a miscarriage of Justice he was
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at at pains to deny any responsibility for her death and it must have been so hard for Jane's partner Malcolm to sit
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there at listen to this person deny any responsibility for murdering his beloved
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partner who he was planning the rest of his life with cs's defense that the strangulation
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was consensual and Jane's death was an accident was not believed by the jury
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after 9 hours of deliberation at Louis Crown Court they unanimously found him guilty of
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[Music] murder on the 4th of February 2004 CS was sentenced to 30 years later reduced
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to 26 years on appeal and was sent to hmp Wakefield but the agony for Jane's loved
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ones was far from over in the months that followed Coots launched a number of appeals around a very specific legal
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ground that the jury had not been offered the alternative explanation that CS had indeed killed
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her accidentally during consensual sex in other words that it was manslaughter rather than murder 2 and a
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half years later the House of Lords granted cs's appeal his conviction was quashed on the 19th of October 2006 and
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a retrial ordered he would remain in custody the friends and family of Jane Longhurst they had the indignity of her
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being murdered in such horrific circumstances than the denials of false Stories the lies the smears that he
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spread but they they have to go through one trial the stress of that and then for him to appeal it and they be a
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retrial it's reliving that most traumatic horrific part of their life in June 2007 a second trial began
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this time with manslaughter as a possibility ballister Richard Barton once again acted for the prosecution
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retrials are always is more of a challenge but I never had any doubt and I'm sure
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that the police and the CPS never had any doubt of his guilt on Wednesday the 4th of July 2007 after jurors had
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deliberated for 13 hours CS was once again found guilty of murder by a majority verdict and sentenced to life
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in prison Crown courts um dignified places where High drama is not permitted by judges but following the verdict in the
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retrial there were cheers from the public gallery from the from the friends and family of Jane Longhurst and I can
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hardly blame them judge Richard Brown told him at the second trial and I quote in seeking perverted sexual
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gratification by way of your sworded and evil fantasies you've taken her life and devastated the
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lives of those she loved and those who loved her and he concluded by saying you have shown not one jot of remorse as he
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was driven away the prosecution described this murder as a Despicable crime compounded by a Despicable
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defense despite C's being behind bars for the rest of his life for Jane's
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mother Liz and her sister SU the fight for justice wasn't over it's been a horrendous year for my
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family with the murder of my sister the violent murder of my sister Jane lur by the
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strangulation and uh rape gra CS who has now got life imprisonment um for this murder was
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fueled by the internet downloading images from websites do you pay by using your credit card following the
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conviction of Graham CS Liz campaigned to get the law changed because he was found to have um pornography which you
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know sparked his interest in the in the 1990s and nothing was done about it Martin Suter labor MP for reading at
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the time worked on a campaign with Liz Longhurst she felt desperately sad obviously as to what happened to her
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daughter and desperately sad that other young people could easily be put at risk
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she wasn't ever seeking to Outlaw pornography what she was concerned about was those extreme imagery that would tip
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and I think it was her words tip an unbalanced mind into acting out their fantasies I think when we started we
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couldn't get our heads around the fact that it was perfectly legal to broadcast images of young women being
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murdered and raped some cases in real time for those images to be available and able to be
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disseminated right away across the United Kingdom even though the UK's obscene
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Publications act banned offensive material being published in Britain it was no match for the millions of illicit
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images being posted on the internet from all all over the world as much as they would have liked to the Metropolitan
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Police vice squad or or or the law enforcement agencies in this country can't go after internet sites that are
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hosted in South America or somewhere else in the globe after 18 months of Liz loners campaigning the UK's obscenity
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laws were changed making it illegal to possess pornography that features rape or torture Jane's mother
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Elizabeth was an extraord ordinary woman who was very dignified throughout and the worst nightmare for any parent
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that she went through but she campaigned tirelessly thereafter along with others and they achieved a change in the
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law and I regularly prosecute people who have extreme pornography similar to much
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that CS at the time was looking at legally I think bringing about this changeing
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the law meant everything to Liz it's what she strove for I was privileged to
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be part of that exercise to help her on that journey and whilst it meant everything clearly didn't mean as much
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as having a daughter back the laws that Liz Longhurst campaign helped change are still keeping
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people like Graham Coots off the streets and protecting other families from the living nightmare that Jane's loved ones
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went through Graham Coots will always present a danger to women he's presented
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a danger to women since he was a teenager and that really is by his own admission he wasn't saying I'm a
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potential rapist he was saying I'm a potential killer he was saying that right from the beginning he is never
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going to be safe to be around women he was a young man with a very dark side that he hid from everybody very
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well what he did was evil he could have saved her had he stopped strangling her but he
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didn't he could have told the police where she was but he didn't he endeavored to keep his
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perverted f fantasy alive for as long as he possibly could before he dumped her naked body and set fire to
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it Graham Coots was a man obsessed with satisfying his darkest sexual fantasies fueled by violent pornography he
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strangled Jane Longhurst a young woman in the prime of her life and then kept her body in a storage un for his own
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Twisted gratification his coldblooded and depraved Behavior sent shock waves around the country cou showed no remorse
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for his horrific actions content to destroy the victim's reputation to escape Justice Graham CS will be
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remembered as one of Britain's most evil killers [Music] for