11:22am Monday 6th July 2009
A jealous martial arts expert who strangled his partner after learning that she planned to leave him for another man was jailed for life today.
Alan Jermey was told he must serve at least 16 years after being found guilty of murdering Mercedes-Benz executive Kirsty Wilson by an Old Bailey jury.
Jermey was “obsessive” about Miss Wilson, the mother of his two children, and could not stand to let her go.
The car salesman, who has a black belt in kung fu, used his skills to throttle her, leaving few external injuries.
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 Miss Wilson, whose parents Peter and Sandra Wilson live in Bradford, 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 in August last year.
After pouring petrol over her, he arranged her body to make it look as though she had fallen asleep watching television.
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