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Graham Coutts

Graham Coutts

Jane Longhurst

Graham Coutts was found guilty of kidnapping, strangling with a pair of tights then after storing the body, setting fire to School teacher Jane Lomnghurst. Coutts denied murder instead saying it was a sex game that went wrong.

Coutts admitted hiding the body in a shed and then at a storage Company - The Big Yellow storage company. He was caught on CCTV moving the body, and it was revealed at the trial that while the body was in storage he went to visit it on several occasions, presumably for sexual gratification. He was also caught on camera buying petrol which he put into a container on 19th April 2003. It was on that same day that the body was found alight in woodlands in west Sussex.

On Wednesday 4th February 2004 at Lewes Crown court the jury found him guilty of murder, the judge sentenced him to life imprisonment with a recommendation he should serve a minimum of 30 years.

From the hard disk of his computer police were able to confirm that Coutts had visited many internet web sites about rape and murder, and subscribed to several pornographic web sites.

14 March - Jane Longhurst phones a friend but instead speaks to Graham Coutts
14 March - Malcolm Sentance phones Jane's mobile but it is switched off
14 March - Mr Sentance rings police and reports Jane's disappearance
14 to 18 March - Police search for Jane and decide to treat her disappearance as a serious crime
21 March - Police speak to Coutts
19 April - Jane's burning body is found on Wiggonholt Common
20 April - Post mortem confirms the body is Jane
24 April - Coutts is arrested and struggles to answer detectives' questions
25 April - Coutts is released without charge
28 April - Police search the Big Yellow Storage Company
29 April - Coutts is rearrested and charged with murder

 
Kill Total: 1 Kill place: Hove, Sussex
Kill date: 14th March 2003 Victim(s): Jane longhurst
Date of Birth: 1968 Marital Status: Single
AKA: Unknown Occupation: Sales rep
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