Man found guilty of Kirsty Wilson murder (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Man found guilty of Kirsty Wilson murder

3:20pm Friday 3rd July 2009 in

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A jealous martial arts expert who strangled his partner after learning she planned to leave him for another man was found guilty of her murder today.

Alan Jermey, 41, was “obsessive” about Mercedes-Benz executive Kirsty Wilson, 34, the mother of his two children, and could not stand to let her go.

Jermey, a car salesman with a black belt in kung fu, used his skills to throttle her, leaving few external injuries at their home in Woking, Surrey, last August.

He set her body alight to try to make it look as though she had died in a fire but the blaze failed to take hold.

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

During the Old Bailey trial, Miss Wilson’s parents Peter and Sandra Wilson, of Bradford, both wept as they gave evidence, describing her as popular and beautiful, and “the kind of woman who turned heads”.