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EVERY PARENT'S NIGHTMARE
Chilling moment sick killer Edward Tenniswood approached tragic India Chipchase outside nightclub and lured her to her death
Disturbing CCTV shows the killer approach her outside a bar
THIS is the moment sick fantasist Edward Tenniswood lured India Chipchase to her death after promising to “get her home safe”.
In a series of disturbing CCTV clips released by police the killer can be seen chatting to the doctor’s daughter before leading her to her death.
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Barmaid India is first seen on her mobile outside the club, where she had been enjoying a night out with friends.
Balding Tenniswood is then seen leaning in to talk to the 20-year-old and appears to have a conversation with her.
In the next clip the pair can be seen getting into a taxi – shortly after an onlooker heard predator Tenniswood say “don’t worry, I’ll get you home safe”.
Just hours later and India would be dead – killed by loner Tenniswood in his rented home.
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Today the recluse was jailed for life with a minimum term of 30 years after being found guilty of murdering India after telling the jury she had died while they were sharing consensual sex.
A jury of six men and six women took just one hour 45 minutes to return a unanimous guilty verdict following a ten-day trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
As the verdicts were delivered Tenniswood looked down and raised his eyebrows, and then dropped his face into his hands.
Sentencing him to life the judge, Mr Justice Saunders, told the court: "This was a terrible crime. It was committed because the defendant was determined to satisfy his own sexual desires on an attractive and much younger woman. It was a crime of utter depravity."
India's family, who were in the public gallery of the court, wept.
Her father Jeremy Chipchase said: "I sincerely hope there's no possibility that another woman ever falls into the hands of my daughter's murderer."
The judge added: "To lose a child at any time and for any reason is a tragedy, but to lose a daughter in the way India's parents did is unimaginable."
Delusional Tenniswood described by his own defence barrister as “an oddball.”
Closing the defence case, Samuel Stein QC told the jury: “He is an odd ball. He is a man who is infuriating because he cannot and does not stop talking.”
Birmingham Crown Court had earlier heard how India’s body was found with over 30 separate injuries after she was raped, battered and strangled to death.
Following sentencing Detective Chief Inspector Steve Woliter called Tenniswood "the worst kind of predator".
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Doctor’s daughter India – who was 5ft 1in and weighed 8st 5lbs – had gone out with friends in Northampton the night of Friday January 29 but they became separated.
She ended up outside the front entrance of a club at about 1am on the Saturday morning.
Edward Tenniswood was overheard telling India Chipchase “don’t worry, I’ll get you home safe” after she had been on a night out with friends.
Tenniswood claimed that India motioned him to strangle her while they were sharing consensual sex.
He told jurors India, 20, moved his hands to her neck as they twice had intercourse last January.
He said: “As I’m kissing her she moves my hands down, then pushes this pressure on to my hands.
“I got the hint when she pushed that I was to continue pushing.”
Tenniswood told the jury: "It's a traumatic experience when dressing a body."
Christopher Donnellan, for the Crown, told the jury: "What does that comment tell you about him?
"He's only full of his own self-pity, entirely self-centred."
The court also heard how vile Tenniswood had previously throttled a teenage girl and tried to forcibly kiss her.
Distraught friends of India described how they lost her during the night out.
They said although it was out of character for her to disappear without saying goodbye they assumed she had gone home because she was drunk.
Pal Harry Moylan said: “We looked everywhere for her but couldn’t find her. We thought she’d either gone home, or met up with other friends.”
When police smashed their way through the front door of Edward Tenniswood's squalid home in Northampton, they found lifeless India Chipchase upstairs on a mattress on the floor with a sheet pulled over her.
Her hair was pulled up around her head like "a halo", the court heard.
Residents living near Tenniswood's home called on the property to be bulldozed and turned into a memorial garden.
One neighbour said: "It's the house from hell where the devil himself murdered an innocent woman in the prime of her life.
"It needs to come down as soon as possible and turned into a memorial garden or something."
As Tenniswood was sentenced, he continued to stare at the ground tightly flanked by four security guards.
Police revealed the vile killer, who had no previous convictions, was caught after his image - taken off the nightclub CCTV footage - was identified by an officer, which led to cops breaking down his door and discovering Ms Chipchase dead.
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Instead of raising the alarm Tenniswood spent the next 22 hours drinking lager in an Ibis hotel until police arrested him.
He told them: “I'm surprised you were here so quick. It didn't take you long.”
During his delusion ramblings he told the jury he was “very successful” with women, once dated a fashion model and had a string of “attractive” ex-girlfriends.
Tenniswood, said he kept a collection of magazine clippings of girl bands in his Northampton home – including girl band Little Mix.
He said: “Yes, I haven’t had an immensely successful life, but I’m lucky enough to have had some very attractive girlfriends, one of whom was a very successful fashion model actually.
“I have had some extremely attractive ex girlfriends, is that a crime?”
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His neighbour Peter England, described how there “were no curtains or carpets on the floor, just newspapers” at his home.
He added: “It is a messy house. There is grease everywhere.”
And in a further sign of his disturbed nature he said he wished he had left a note for “darling” India.
He said: “I wish I had left a note that said ‘India darling, I will be back in 20 minutes, love Eddie.'”
Tragic timeline leading to India’s murder
January 29
11.30pm: India seen on CCTV entering NB's Cocktail Bar & Club in Bridge Street, Northampton with friends.
January 30
12.15am: India captured on security cameras inside the bar being helped up by her friend Alice Lewis after downing six Jagerbomb cocktails.
12.39am: India seen on CCTV slumped on the bar before dropping her handbag on the floor.
12.45am: Miss Lewis tries to find India in NB's but fails to locate her.
12.58am: India is separated from her friends and tells doorman Dave Burry "I just want to go home". He escorts her outside to a taxi, but she becomes "upset" when the driver asks for money and gets out.
1.08am: CCTV shows India stumbling outside. Mr Burry walks back outside and India falls over onto him and tells her again "I want to go home". He goes back inside but tells colleagues to "keep an eye on her".
1.11am: CCTV shows Tenniswood arriving and queuing outside NB's. He appears to glance at India, who is seen behind him pulling a locked car door believing it is a taxi.
1.13am: Tenniswood approaches India who is sitting down on the pavement crying on her phone. Tenniswood grips her arm and is overheard saying "Don't worry, I'll get you home safe."
1.23am: Tenniswood steers India towards a taxi rank, a witness overhears him telling her to put her phone away "for safety".
1.25am: Taxi driver is told by Tenniswood to take them to McDonalds. He pulls away down Bridge Street, where Tenniswood tells him to go to a different McDonalds.
Tenniswood then tells the driver to pull over at a BP garage near his home, where he gets out of the car for four minutes.
1.28am: India tries to call her boyfriend Grant Hare for the last time.
1.35am: Tenniswood gets back in and directs the driver to the end of Stanley Road, but tells him to stop a few hundred yards away from his home.
1.40am: Witness Patrick Francis sees Tenniswood guiding India towards his house, 6 Stanley Road, before ushering her inside.
1.41am - 1.49am: India sends series of Snapchats, including one which read: "Where are Club."
3am: India has been raped and strangled to death by Tenniswood.
3.03am: Grant Hare tries to call India three times, but her phone rings out.
4pm: India fails to arrive for her job as a barmaid at The Collingtree pub and restaurant. Her parents report her missing and a huge police search and social media campaign is launched.
9.30pm: CCTV footage shows Tenniswood entering the Ibis Hotel in Mair Fair, Northampton, after going for a kebab to "clear his head".
January 31
3.22am: Tenniswood uses the hotel computer to access news websites, where he looked up the search for India.
3.38am: Tenniswood leaves the hotel for around 30 minutes after staff are asked to call the police on an unrelated matter.
3.45pm: Police break down door of 6 Stanley Road, Northampton, and find India's body on a mattress with her hair placed "like a halo" around her head.
6.47pm: Police arrive at hotel and find Tenniswood watching TV in the lounge. He is arrested on suspicion of murder. He tells officers: "I'm surprised you were so quick.
You didn't take very long to find me."
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