R vs Alan Jermey ( 2009 )Mother strangled and set on fire by jealous boyfriend

Mother strangled and set on fire by jealous boyfriend after she planned new life with boss

By Paul Sims
Daily Mail online 04th July 2009

 

Victim: Kirsty Wilson's body was found doused in petrol in a blazing house

A jilted martial arts expert was facing life behind bars last night for strangling his girlfriend after she revealed she was leaving him for her married boss.
Alan Jermey, 41, snapped after Mercedes executive Kirsty Wilson, 37, told him she had been having a year-long affair.
As their two children slept upstairs, he choked her to death before dousing her head in petrol and setting her and their family home ablaze.
He then climbed out of the bathroom window with their two young daughters and calmly waited for the fire brigade on their home's flat roof.
Jermey, a car salesman and black belt in kung fu, said he had made no attempt to rescue Miss Wilson, his partner of nine years, because of 'thick black billowing smoke coming up the stairs'.
But the fire brigade said there was little more smoke than might be found 'in a smoky pub'.
Last night, after being found guilty of murder by an Old Bailey jury, Miss Wilson's devastated parents paid tribute to their daughter.
Peter and Sandra Wilson, from Bradford, said: 'We have lost our only daughter Kirsty - a beautiful, vibrant young woman with the rest of her life ahead of her.
'She was the kind of woman who turned heads. She was kind, honest, had a wonderful sense of humour and was totally reliable.
'Our grandchildren have been deprived of their mother for the rest of their lives. They are too young to understand why their mummy has left them and gone to heaven. They are the real victims of this tragedy.'

 

 

Alan Jermey (top) killed Miss Wilson, rather than see her start a new life with Simon Goddard

Jermey hatched his plan last summer after learning that Miss Wilson planned to leave him for her married boss, Simon Goddard.
By then her affair with Mr Goddard, the managing director of the Tony Purslow Mercedes dealership in Basingstoke, Hampshire, had lasted a year. They had already started planning their lives together - where to live and how to rearrange things so as to cause the least disruption to their children.
In April, Mr Goddard left his wife and two children. A month later Miss Wilson finally told Jermey: 'I can't see us spending the rest of our lives together.'
At first he took it calmly. He joined dating agency Match.com and the Facebook website and 'told police officers he had had sex with three other women that year'.
But in August last year, after Miss Wilson discussed putting their four-bedroom house in Woking, Surrey, on the market, he killed her.
Jermey used a 100,000-volt stun gun he had secretly ordered over the internet to knock her out before strangling her.
Sarah Forshaw QC, prosecuting, said: 'The time was fast approaching when she was going to leave him. That night, when the children were upstairs asleep, he killed her.
'He arranged her dead body on the floor. He went out to the garage where he kept petrol cans for the lawnmower. He poured petrol over her, particularly over her head and her neck and he set fire to her.
'He was particularly anxious that he may have left signs around her that identified himself as her strangler. He expected the fire to take hold immediately and for the house to go up in flames. The fire never really took hold.'
Jermey said he had gone to bed early and left Miss Wilson downstairs when he was woken by an explosion and was prevented from saving her by thick black smoke.
When it became apparent that the fire had not destroyed her body, Jermey tried to explain bruising on her neck by claiming he had given her a 'neck massage' earlier in the evening.
Yesterday Mr Goddard said they were 'very much in love' and planned to marry. He added: 'I still find it hard to accept that all of our dreams and plans for the future will never materialise.'
Outside court Detective Inspector Paul Monk 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.'
Jermey will be sentenced on Monday.