Who is Jamie Reynolds, when did he murder Georgia Williams and what is his prison sentence
Reynolds lured her to his house on the pretence of helping him with a photo-shoot
TEENAGER Georgia Williams was murdered by a friend after he lured to his house under the pretence of a photoshoot.
As a new Channel 5 documentary "Killed on Camera" looks at the shocking killing, here is everything you need to know about the background to the case.
Who is Jamie Reynolds?
The 23-year-old worked as a petrol station attendant, had a fascination with extreme pornography.
He would superimpose the faces of female Facebook friends onto the bodies of naked women.
Reynolds also wrote sexual fantasies about Georgia which were discovered scrawled in a notepad in his bedroom.
He murdered the trusting Telford 17-year-old to fulfil his long-standing desire to hang a girl and sexually assault her body, his trial was told.
After his conviction serious case review found West Mercia police’s investigation of Reynolds' attempt to strangle a 16-year-old girl at his home in 2008 was flawed.
The police had treated it as an assault, the girl's injuries were not photographed and neither she nor Reynolds were referred to a forensic medical examiner.
He was given a final warning after event.
Georgia’s father Stephen Williams and his wife Lynnette said they believed her death could have been prevented if agencies tasked with working with Reynolds had "done their jobs properly".
"It was so obvious that Reynolds was, if not one already, a murderer in the making,” they said.
When did he murder Georgia Williams?
Reynolds strangled Georgia at his home in Wellington, near Telford, Shropshire, between 8pm and 9pm on May 26
He had bought items including a rope and learned how to tie a noose, attaching it to a “hanging mechanism” in the house’s loft hatch above the landing.
Reynolds also bought a leather jacket, leather shorts and high heels for Georgia to wear during the “shoot”.
In a chilling message beforehand he told her he wanted to take a photograph of her “like simulation hanging, but you’d be standing on a box”.
Georgia turned up on the evening of Sunday, May 26, telling her parents and sister where she was going and that she would only be a couple of hours.
Shockingly, he took a sick sequence of pictures showing “before, during and after” the brutal murder.
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After killing the teenager, Reynolds drove 50 miles to remote woodland off the Nant-y-Garth pass near Wrexham where he dumped her body.
He then fled to Scotland via Rhyl, Chester, and Kendal in Cumbria.
After a UK-wide manhunt Reynolds was arrested by officers outside a Premier Inn hotel in Glasgow City Centre on May 28, before her body had been found.
What is his prison sentence?
He dramatically admitted his crime just as he was about to go on trial at Stafford Crown Court,
Reynolds was given a whole life term for the what the judge called the “scripted, sadistic and sexually-motivated murder”.