Killer jailed for life as court hears how daughter still asks for mummy (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Killer jailed for life as court hears how daughter still asks for mummy

4:27pm Monday 6th July 2009

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A judge has offered his sympathy to the Bradford parents of a woman who was strangled and set on fire by her jealous partner.

Martial arts expert Alan Jermey murdered Kirsty Wilson after learning she planned to leave him for another man.

He was today jailed for life and told he must serve at least 16 years after being found guilty of murdering the Mercedes-Benz executive by an Old Bailey jury.

Judge Martyn Zeidman paid tribute to Miss Wilson’s parents Peter and Sandra Wilson, who had both wept as they gave evidence at Jermey’s trial.

The judge said Jermey had “imposed a life sentence of weeping” on them and caused a “devastating blow” to their two grandchildren He said: “Nothing can bring Kirsty back but I offer, even at this late stage, my condolences.”

Judge Zeidman said Jermey was obsessive about Miss Wilson, who was the mother of his children. He had done a “terrible thing” by killing his “kind, vibrant, beautiful” partner.

Jermey, a car salesman with a black belt in kung fu, used his martial arts skills to throttle Miss Wilson. He set her body alight at their home in Woking, Surrey, last August to try to make it look as though she had died in a fire.

He hatched a cold-blooded plan to kill Miss Wilson after learning that she planned to leave him for her married boss, Simon Goddard.

He secretly ordered a 100,000-volt stun gun over the internet so he could knock her out before killing her.

After pouring petrol over her, he arranged her body to make it look as though she had fallen asleep watching television, before setting her on fire and clambering on to an extension roof with their two daughters as one of them cried: “I want mummy.”

Sentencing him today, Judge Zeidman told Jermey: “You have done a wicked act, murdering the mother of your own young children. At the time of the murder they were just seven and three.

“They have been told that their mother is in heaven,” the judge said.

The court heard that the youngest child still asked her grandmother: “Can I get mummy on the phone?”

The judge asked Jermey: “How do you explain to a child of that age that they will never see mummy again?”

After the case, Detective Inspector Paul Monk, of Surrey Police, said: “Jermey was consumed with jealousy and rage.

“He may have perversely believed that, by taking Kirsty’s life, he could ignore the collapse of their relationship and retain full custody of their children.

“In fact, his wicked act has deprived two young girls of both their parents.”

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