Posted on 03/06/2008 6:56:14 PM PST by forkinsocket
A LONDON fitness instructor has been jailed for life after he went on a first date armed with a carving knife and murdered a businesswoman by stabbing her more than 30 times.
Karl Taylor, 27, was told by Old Bailey judge Giles Forrester that he would not be eligible for parole for at least 30 years for Kate Beagley's brutal murder.
The 32-year-old, of Walton-on-Thames, was stabbed in the face and neck during her date with Taylor, the court was told.
The British Gas sales manager's naked body was found in stinging nettles near Watford, Hertfordshire, almost a week after she was reported missing by her father.
Taylor, of Covent Garden, central London, had told police he had only meant to steal the woman's car after they argued during their date.
He had denied murder, telling the jury that it was Beagley who repeatedly stabbed herself in the face and neck in front of him after revealing she was having personal problems.
Beagley's corpse was so badly decomposed, because of the hot summer weather, she could only be identified by DNA testing.
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theres a lesson to be learned from this incident.
Start with a second date?
Karl Taylor is about to become someone’s first date in prison.
Yeah, but “life” in Britain only means 7 years....if that long.
Throw away the key.
Online dating: “Let the stalking begin!”
Real nifty defense argument ya' got there Karl.
I suppose a guy like you thought it was real intelligent.
According to the article he won’t be eligible for parole for at least 30 years.
Veritable rivers of blood, to quote Enoch Powell.
If I were the judge I would have jailed his counsel for sheer stupidity.
An’ you know what I’m talkin’ ‘bout!
“theres a lesson to be learned from this incident.”
And that would be?
Where is the justice? In 30 years (probably less), he can kill again. In 30 years, her body will have no flesh, it’ll just be bones.
Where’s the justice?
In England he would have gotten the same sentence if he had killed her in self-defence!
And that would be?
Never kill on the first date?
I suspect he is going to have a LOT of 'first dates' in prison.
“Never kill on the first date?”
I suspect the poster won’t be back to answer.
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