Jamie Reynolds, 23, offered to take a portrait series of flame-haired Georgia Williams, a policeman’s daughter who wanted to be a model.
But after taking a few snaps he produced a ligature and throttled the 17-year-old. He continued taking pictures after the former head girl had died.
Friends: Jamie Reynolds, left, with Georgia
Williams, whom he would later strangle to death before taking pictures
of her body and dumping it in a patch of woodland
Murder: Jamie Reynolds, right, pleaded guilty to killing teenager Georgia Williams, left
Family: Georgia, left, pictured at home with her father Steve and her sister Scarlett
Details of the horrific case emerged yesterday when Reynolds pleaded guilty to murder on what was due to be the first day of his trial. The case is the latest in a series to involve extreme internet pornography.
Last week, Ian Watkins, leader singer of the rock band Lostprophets, admitted sex attacks on two babies after becoming obsessed with online child pornography.
Yesterday, trial judge Mr Justice Wilkie was warned a ‘great deal of extreme pornography’ was relevant to Georgia’s murder.
Following the killing in Wellington, Shropshire, in May, Reynolds drove 50 miles in his stepfather’s work van to remote woodland near Wrexham to dump his victim’s body.
Jamie Reynolds offered to take a series of
portraits of Georgia Williams, pictured left posing for the camera and
right with her father Steve, who wanted to be a model
Crime scene: Reynolds' house in Wellington, Shropshire where he killed Georgia in May this year
Investigation: Police forensic officers outside Reynolds' home around the time of Georgia's death
Numberplate
cameras recorded him travelling 200 miles further to Glasgow, where he
abandoned the van in a car park. He was arrested three days later at a
budget hotel.
Reynolds had a fascination with death and material found on his computers is thought to include ‘snuff movies’ of people dying.
Stafford Crown Court heard he doctored with extreme material the images of 50 young women he found on social networking sites. He had also written sick fantasies, including one about a colleague at the Welcome Break M54 service station near Telford who had spurned him.
Friends said Reynolds had declared his ‘undying love’ for Georgia and had been pestering her for dates before he killed her.
They said she considered ‘their relationship was nothing more than friendship’ that began at a youth music night at a pub.
Reynolds attended Ercall Wood Technology College in Telford, where Georgia, an RAF cadet, was head girl in her final GCSE year.
Reynolds had a fascination with death and material found on his computers is thought to include ‘snuff movies’ of people dying.
Stafford Crown Court heard he doctored with extreme material the images of 50 young women he found on social networking sites. He had also written sick fantasies, including one about a colleague at the Welcome Break M54 service station near Telford who had spurned him.
Friends said Reynolds had declared his ‘undying love’ for Georgia and had been pestering her for dates before he killed her.
They said she considered ‘their relationship was nothing more than friendship’ that began at a youth music night at a pub.
Reynolds attended Ercall Wood Technology College in Telford, where Georgia, an RAF cadet, was head girl in her final GCSE year.
Family: Georgia's sister Scarlett leaves Stafford Crown Court after Reynolds pleaded guilty
Police believe she was murdered within 90 minutes of walking to the home Reynolds shared with his mother Kay – said by neighbours to be a teacher – stepfather Shaun Thomas, an electrician, and sister Brogran, 19. Georgia’s family thought she came home later that night and realised she was missing only when she failed to meet boyfriend Matthew Bird, 19, the next day.
Her parents, Detective Constable Steve Williams, 57, and Lynette, 52, sat with their elder daughter Scarlett, 22, in court yesterday to see Reynolds plead guilty.
He is being held at Merseyside’s Ashworth mental hospital, alongside Moors Murderer Ian Brady.
Mr Justice Wilkie said he was considering imposing a whole life term later this month. Outside court, Georgia’s father said in a statement that the family were still raw with pain and would ‘never make any sense of what happened’.
A former
colleague of Reynolds, who was an amateur photographer, said the killer
had hounded fellow workers with unwanted advances.
The woman, who asked not to be identified, said Reynolds crashed his car into that of another woman he targeted. ‘She was getting a bit intimidated by the constant pestering, asking her out, telling people how much he liked her and trying to get her on her own,’ the colleague said.
‘She finally stood up to him and I believe he stormed out of the petrol station and as he was driving off he reversed into her car and caused quite a lot of damage. He got the sack after that.’
Five years ago he was cautioned for harassing an ex-girlfriend.
Uniform: Georgia, 17, was a keen member of the Air Cadets and hoped to join the RAF
Popular: Georgia, who was head girl at her school, drew 800 mourners to a memorial service in June
The
Daily Mail has campaigned to clean up the internet through its Block
Online Porn campaign. All 20million families in the UK who have an
internet connection will now be given a choice whether to opt in or
block online pornography from home networks.The breakthrough – announced at a Downing Street summit on protecting children online last month – followed concern over high-profile cases such as that of Mark Bridger, who murdered five-year-old April Jones in Machynlleth, Mid-Wales, in October 2012 after building up a library of depraved images using internet searches.
The same year, Stuart Hazell killed 12-year-old Tia Sharp – his girlfriend’s granddaughter – in Croydon, South London, after months of trawling internet pornography.
Guilty: Reynolds, pictured left at a previous court hearing, initially denied the killing but then changed his plea
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