Frome man guilty of murdering woman as she tried to leave

A man who put his partner with cocaine and then fatally strangled her the night he tried to leave, was declared guilty of murder.

Karon Goodwin, 33, was sentenced in Thorsday in Bristol Crown Court to kill Olivia Wood on his floor in Frome, Somerset, on July 30 of last year.

The jury heard that Goodwin had quickly become control of its three -month relationship, and Mrs. Wood had been “deeply unhappy.” On the night he died, he had packed his belongings in a Suitase and a backpack, a suggestion that he was prepared to leave, the court was tolerated.

Judge Martin Picton thanked the jury for his work in the “completely heartbreaking” case.

Goodwin was also convicted of a series of sexual crimes, including four violation positions against three other women.

Previously he declared guilty of four coercive control positions related to Mrs. Wood and three other victims.

Mrs. Wood, an ecologist based in Liverpool, was described by her employer as “hard and professional worker”, who was “very thoughtful or for his fights.”

In a tribute to her after the conviction of Goodwin, Mrs. Wood’s family said: “The pain that our family feels is indeccribed.

“Olivia was the glue that heroes together, a loyal friend, a devout sister, an appreciated daughter.

“It was a rarity, deeply selfless, disarmed ingenious, a timeless beauty. Always there to prepare a cup of tea when some seemed necessary, listen, help.

“Now it has been tasks of us and we stayed with an abyss in our lives, a love that can never be replaced.”

Mrs. Wood never formally moved to live with Mr. Goodwin, but a long time with him was in Frome.

Goodwin quickly changed the control and in the course of its brief relationship, it transferred more than £ 6,000, much of which was in its cocaine habit.

Hi, he also pressed reinte having sex with another man and the performance sex acts on the camera against his will, WhatsApp messages among them showed.

Shortly before her death, Mrs. Wood classifies her employer to tell her that she needed to take a free time due to the couple’s mental health and that she was threatening to commit suicide.

Mrs. Wood never spoke with anyone about the situation she was in, heard the jury, but the notes on her phone revealed that she was “deeply unhappy.”

The defendant’s phone messages revealed that he was buying cocaine almost every day, and sent her to collect drugs.

Mr. Goodwin called 999 at 2:50 BST of July 30 to say that Mrs. Wood did not breathe and gave her first aid instructions.

But the duration of the call was a simultaneous lime that eliminated hundreds and photos of videos from his phone.

Prosecutor Adam Vaitilingam KC told the jury that he could find “worrying” that a man who tries to save someone’s life “needs to eliminate the material from his incriminatory phone potentially.”

The paramedics told the court that they saw a great hematoma developing in the neck of Mrs. Wood and Mr. Goodwin told them: “I have killed her. Everything is my fault. Oh, my God, does it go to that? What have I done?”

A subsequent examination revealed that Wood had a fatally potentially potential cocaine level in its system, and the hyoid bone in its neck fractured, a lesion often associated with the fatal compression of the neck.

The pathologist also found bruises in the form of parallel lines on his neck, consisting of a belt or approximately 3 cm wide.

The prosecutor said that the strangulation, in addition to cocaine, “played a great role” in the death of Mrs. Wood.

Goodwin has never given an explanation of the death of Mrs. Wood, and did not give evidence in the trial.

But the toxicologist, Dr. Stephen Morley, giving defense tests, said that the victim’s blood were “three times with what toxicologists would feel comfortable,” describing them as “probably fatal.”

Hey added: “There is no unique concentration in which death will definitely be said.”

Other victims told the Police that Goodwin had printed to take cocaine when they had no history of drug abuse, even by injection.

One told the jury that he believed that the defendant wanted her to take drugs to make her more “malleable.”

Goodwin was even more condemned for five positions to make a person participate in sexual activities without consent, an assault position for penetration and one of intentional strangulation.

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The senior investigating officer Det Lorett Spierenburg, or the Avon and Somerset Police said: “Karon Goodwin is an incredible and manipulative man who will now face justice for the horrible crimes that these women submitted.

“His offensive has had a significant impact on each of them and, ultimately, and tragically, had fatal consequences for Olivia.

“Each of those women who have spoken so bravely about what they suffered in their hands deserves great praise.

“Also because I took this opportunity to pay tribute to the family and friends of Olivia who have acted with such dignity, despite the cowardice of Goodwin by refusing to admit their crimes and provide them with the answers they deserve about what the night is.”