A ‘completely evil’ man has been jailed for all times after strangling his girlfriend to demise.
Kieron Goodwin, 33, murdered Olivia Wooden, 29, in Frome, Somerset, final July after a brief however violent relationship.
He was discovered responsible of a complete of 16 offences towards Olivia and three different girls who survived his reign of terror.
Goodwin subjected Olivia to a marketing campaign of bodily and psychological abuse over a three-month interval.
Throughout their relationship he:
– Threatened to hurt himself, forcing Oliva to take break day work
– Despatched WhatsApp messages pressuring her into intercourse with one other man
– Took £6,000 from her to purchase cocaine
He has now been jailed for at least 35 years after a trial.
After the sentencing, Olivia’s mum Astrid mentioned: ‘Olivia might disarm you along with her wit, her magnificence and her successful smile.
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‘Olivia had fun you might hear from wherever in the home. Olivia was the glue that held our household collectively.’
She referred to as Goodwin an ‘unspeakably evil man’, saying: ‘He’s an selfish, sadistic beast. A morally disadvantaged psychopath.’
Goodwin referred to as 999 within the early hours of July 30, 2024, reporting that Olivia was not respiration. She died in hospital a short while later and Goodwin was arrested.
Nonetheless, police discovered luggage stuffed along with her garments, indicating that she was planning to go away him.
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He was additionally discovered to have dedicated crimes towards three different girls, who he plied with medication then threatened with compromising footage to get them at hand over tens of hundreds of kilos.
All three survivors gave statements concerning the affect he had on their lives.
One mentioned: ‘It pains me to know what he’s able to. It pains me to know that I’m alive and the opposite individual just isn’t. He’s not remorseful or sorry.
‘He’s solely sorry he acquired caught and the concept that he can return into the world sooner or later to harm me and others is one thing that I can not bear.’
One in all Olivia’s sisters, Soscha Seymour, mentioned he had traumatised her household with a trial and making an attempt to trash her status.
She mentioned: ‘He as an alternative selected cowardice and a disgusting, misogynistic assassination of Olivia’s character in an try and weasel out of the vile actions he has dedicated.
‘Not solely has her life been taken by this monster, however her status too.
‘I would like this to be my alternative to say loud and clear that Olivia was not this individual and her reminiscence doesn’t need to be tarnished by the allegations made throughout this trial.’
Decide Martin Picton had equally sturdy phrases for him, telling him: ‘You’re a extremely manipulative, decided, misogynistic, egocentric, narcissistic and completely evil particular person.
‘The time period “evil” just isn’t a superlative to make use of frivolously, however in your case it’s completely deserved. The proof revealed you to be a grasp manipulator.
‘You had been the right storm for Olivia and to a lesser or better extent for your whole victims – an ideal storm of emotional, bodily, monetary and sexual abuse towards which background you selected to train the management you wielded in order to trigger your victims to take ever better portions of Class A medication and to interact in ever extra excessive non-consensual acts.
‘You might be completely devious and manipulative as I’ve already recognized. Any lady coming beneath your affect will, in my judgment, be at very nice threat of hurt from you.
‘You aren’t to be trusted or taken at face worth.’
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