Ski nut Sarah Williams’ obsession with silver foxes saw her snare FOUR older men with a combined age of 232
Infatuation with older men dates back to when killer was just 17-years-old – and she embarked on a relationship with Dave Hardwick - 40 years her senior
TWISTED Sarah Williams was obsessed with older men and sex on the ski slopes — and used her skills on the piste to make sure she got plenty of both.
The 35-year-old bunny boiler snared four sugar daddies skiing — including tragic Sadie Hartley’s partner Ian Johnston, 57.
Two of her lovers were already married — with one calling in cops when Williams refused to accept he wanted nothing more to do with her.
After she was dumped by 47-year-old ski instructor Somapat Sitiwatjana, she warned: “You don’t f*** with me unless you want to suffer.”
She also enjoyed a long-term affair with oil firm boss Dave Hardwick who she met when she was 17 and he was 57. He splashed out on regular winter holidays and gave her a £320 weekly allowance.
While with him she dated another ski instructor — 53-year-old Andy Poole, who she met in the Alps.
Williams’ fascination with older men stemmed from her youth, when she was bullied by lads her own age because of her lazy eye. She looked for affection from more mature guys who found her young and attractive.
Manchester’s indoor ski slope, the Chill Factore, was the perfect place for her to seek out her “silver foxes”.
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It was there she hooked up with Hardwick, who is now 75.
He was married with two kids but refused to leave his wife. Unhappy with the set-up, Williams took revenge with numerous affairs and later told cops: “What was sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander.”
Businessmen Hardwick, of Neston on the Wirral, was said to be “besotted” with her. As well as holidays, including a three-month break in Canada in 2013, he paid for Williams’s life insurance, credit cards and fuel, her murder trial heard.
Even when his wife Rowena found out, he refused to end the affair.
A relative told The Sun: “Rowena suspected something and caught them at it in their marital home.
“It all blew up and we told her to tell him to get lost but he didn’t. He refused to give up Sarah. He’s basically said, ‘You’ll come off worse if we split up’. He’s a control freak.”
In 2011, while still seeing Hardwick, Williams met Sitiwatjana and swiftly started meeting him in hotels for secret sex sessions.
She was obsessed with the Thai martial arts expert and talked about having his babies and running away with him to Asia.
But when Sitiwatjana ended things because “she was getting too close”, Williams became hellbent on revenge. Her murder accomplice and confidante Katrina Walsh kept a diary which revealed Williams went “into full bunny boiler mode.”
By April 2012 Williams was asking Walsh for “revenge ideas”.
She sent her texts fuming: “I warned him and now he’s going down!!! Ideas on a postcard and make them creatively brilliant with a leaning towards insanity.” She added: “Time for a lesson. You don’t f*** with me unless you want to suffer.”
A month later she told Sitiwatjana’s wife Janet about the affair and claimed she was pregnant with the “coward and total b*****d’s” baby.
Months after police in North Manchester cautioned her for harassing the Sitiwatjanas, she relentlessly moved on to Andy Poole.
Poole, of Saddleworth, Gtr Manchester, met Williams in June 2012 while on a trip to Tignes in the French Alps — while she was on holiday with long-term lover Hardwick.
A 12-month affair followed and Poole later told cops: “After we met a few times as friends our relationship developed into a sexual relationship.
“I did have feelings for her but it broke down because she wouldn’t leave David. It was going nowhere.”
But conniving Williams already had her claws deep into another man — accomplished skier and former firefighter Ian Johnston.
They met on the indoor slopes in December 2012 and jurors heard Williams sent Walsh a message saying: “Andy is very nice and lovely but I don’t think I feel enough for him.
“Fireman is just totally awesome. I feel so very comfortable with him.”
Johnston, who had started seeing Sadie in 2011, told the court there was “no dating — she’d turn up at my house in a short skirt and heels”.
Williams bombarded him with naked snaps until he tried to stop the affair in the summer of 2013.
Johnston insisted he had ended it — but jurors heard they had sexted each other up to the end of last year.
He was then forced to admit they swapped “sexually explicit messages” just four days before Sadie was found in a pool of blood in January.
He told the court: “I was flattered by a young lady.”
Meanwhile, Williams had been seeing Hardwick all the time, with him visiting her the day after Sadie’s murder.
Williams' child abduction hell
MURDERER Sarah Williams was abducted as a schoolgirl - then beaten and dumped at the side of the road, The Sun can reveal.
A former school pal said Williams, 34, was left traumatised and “changed” after she was kidnapped at the age of just 13, pushed off her bicycle and bundled into the boot of a car.
The driver threw her red mountain bike into a hedge and - with his hands covering her eyes - took her to a house where she was held captive and strangled with a dog lead.
Williams, who was kidnapped in Little Neston, Cheshire, around 1pm on January 6, 1995, was found around four hours later by a lorry driver - over 35 miles away in countryside near Knutsford.
He took her to a service station on the M6 and police were called.
Yesterday Williams’ dad Chris, who is separated from her mother, told the Sun exclusively: “I have spoken to Sarah’s mum and we are just in shock. We have wondered if her abduction in her childhood affected her more than we thought.
“She (the mum) lived with Sarah day in day out and it’s hard to see when you’re so close up to someone sometimes.
“I was on a TV Crimewatch appeal for it. It was a really bad time. But it just doesn’t add up. It has been hard to get my head around. I’m still trying now.
“After these last few months there are times when I wonder if this is really me that is going through this. Confused is an understatement.”
Sources close to Sarah said the abduction had a dramatic effect on her teenage years.
One pal said: “She didn’t come back after the holidays for about two months. We tried to ring her but nobody could get through and the teachers just told us she wasn’t well.
“When she came back she told us what had happened. We couldn’t believe it. We didn’t pry but she told us the outline. Sarah said was riding a bike home from the stables and was coming down a country lane.
“The fella punched her through the window, threw her in the boot of the car and sped off. As she was falling in and out of consciousness, she spotted a baby in the back through a gap in the seat.
“She passed out again and came around in a battered old house where she’d been locked in a room.
“Sarah said the fella came in a few times with food but on other occasions would beat her.
“Then he tried to strangle her with a dog lead. It knocked her out and then he dumped her at the side of a road in her knickers and a vest.
“Sarah had no idea where she was and she had hypothermia - she was so lucky to be alive.
“I don’t know how you can get over something like that and I think it must have changed her in some way.”
Despite police appeals to catch the man, described as mid-thirties, 5ft 10 ins and stocky with brown hair, he was never found.
Six months after the attack, a charity called Care, based in Stockport, Gtr Manchester, put up a £5,000 reward for information leading to the man’s arrest.
Police said at the time they believed the blonde baby strapped in the back of the blue Vauxhall Cavalier, as well as the car,, may not have been his.
The man claimed he’d broken down and was pretending to fix the five-door hatchback, before locking Williams, who was wearing jodhpurs and a track-suit top, in the boot.
A reconstruction of the incident was aired to nearly 10 million viewers on BBC’s Crimewatch a month later and her father Chris Williams, 63, made a desperate appeal at a press conference.
He said the slightest knock on the front door would “panic” his daughter and she was left too scared to go out alone and was frightened of cars.
After speaking about the harrowing ordeal, Chris added: “What happened to this young girl in a place known to be very quiet has deeply affected her mother.
“It has also affected immediate relatives and the whole area.”
Williams, who spent “every waking hour” outside of school riding horses and skiing, was described as “quiet and meek” by a fellow pupil at the prestigious Birkenhead Girls School - now Birkenhead High School Academy.
Her former school friend said: “Police came to our school to do a talk to warn us about talking to strangers and it was on TV - it was massive news at the time.
“She didn’t talk about it after that but we knew it must have really had an impact on her.
“She’d only just moved to our school. She was friendly but was really quiet and shy.
“I don’t remember her ever getting into trouble.
“I guess the best way to describe her is meek - she definitely wasn’t a social butterfly.
“She loved reading and always had her head in a book and she wanted to be a vet. I think it all came from her love of horses.
“Sarah never said a bad word to anybody and I never saw her lose her temper.
“She was really bright and studious. It was a private school and I think she’d won a scholarship because she wasn’t from a rich background.
“We never really saw her much out of school because she was so busy with her hobbies.
“She was never at parties and wouldn’t do normal teenage things like go to the cinema or shopping.”
Williams, who lived with her mum, never finished sixth form after she was involved in an accident while riding her horse - just weeks before sitting her final exams.
Her school friend said: “She never did her A-levels because she had a horrific accident.
“Her horse was scared by a passing car and landed on top of her, breaking her hip.
“She was in hospital for three months and missed the end of school. I never saw her again after that because everyone went their separate ways.
“When I saw she’d been charged and I couldn’t believe my eyes.
“I haven’t spoken to her for so long but that wasn’t the Sarah I knew.
“She must have really changed since school. To think she was capable of attacking someone in their own home is just mindblowing.
“She was a good person but maybe her run of bad luck has played a part in changing her.”
SADIE GIRL'S TORMENT
THE DAUGHTER of murdered Sadie Hartley said no prison sentence for Sarah Williams and accomplice Katrina Walsh would ever bring her mum back.
Charlotte Hartley blasted the murderous duo for their crime which she said had torn her family apart.
The 23-year-old, who learned of her mum’s death just days after getting engaged while on holiday, said: “They might be in prison, but what’s prison when you haven’t got a mum and you’re out of prison? Nothing will make that feel better.”
And she told of her fury at Williams and Walsh’s refusal to admit their guilt which forced the family to listen to listen to gruesome evidence about Sadie’s injuries, despite overwhelming evidence.
Charlotte, of Stafford, Staffs, said: "It’s very tough to listen to. I am the sort of person that I need to hear the facts, so I know and I don’t question myself.
“Obviously it has been difficult, but all you want is it just to almost be over so we can start grieving as a family, without having our lives all over the world and having to go to a court every day to hear this, which it should never have happened.”
Charlotte, was in Hawaii with fiance Rob Silverstone when her mum was stabbed to death on January 14 by Williams as she answered the door of her home in Helmshore, Lancs.
Recalling the moment she was told of her mum’s death, she said: “I was in Hawaii on the holiday of a lifetime with my partner and his parents. It was about 4am and it was one of the family liaison officers that called. It was my partner that heard the news to start with. He really struggled to tell me so I obviously had to speak to the officer on the phone. I just – you know, you almost don’t know what to say – I just could not believe it.
“I was from an incredible high to an incredible low. It was just indescribable, you obviously think it would never happen to you and at that moment all you want to do is be back home, but I knew she wasn’t going to be there when she got back anyway.”
Paying tribute to her businesswoman mum, she recalled how the horse riding and ski fanatic “lit up a room” when she entered.
She said: “My mum was a very caring, gentle, kind lady, always happy and incredibly trustworthy – just allover incredible woman.
“I would like her to be remembered just for the inspiration she was to many people; she just literally lit up a room. She was just perfect; there was nothing bad about her that anybody could say. She was just a lovely, trustworthy, kind, loving woman.
“She really, really enjoyed horse riding; she had a massive passion for horses. She always went off on trips by herself to different countries doing long treks over a number of days. She also enjoyed skiing, anything outdoors, walking, just being with friends and socialising. She loved a good party as well.
“She rode through Marrakech, she’s rode through Kyrgyzstan, through Chile, through Argentina which was a coast to coast that was about two weeks long altogether. Just really nice exotic places.
“She went skiing once a year or sometimes even two to three times a year. We have skied with her since we were children but she just progressed over the years and she was great at skiing, really good.”
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