WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:09.039 In April two thousand and three, the emergency services were 2 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:12.800 called to a strange looking fire on Wigenholt Common in 3 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:17.280 West Sussex. Police found the burning body of missing thirty 4 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:22.480 one year old special educational needs teacher and musician Jane Longhurst. 5 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:28.079 She's been found naked, with a scarf covering her face 6 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:31.640 and a pair of tights tied round her neck. 7 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:37.759 Jane had been strangled by her best friend's boyfriend, Graham Coots. 8 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:40.159 I don't know what snapped. 9 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:42.520 I don't know what was going on in his mind 10 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:45.960 where he's made the leap from pure fantasy to living 11 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:48.520 out his fantasy and taking somebody's life in the most 12 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:49.200 horrific way. 13 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:54.359 As evidence piled up against Coots, he claimed to have 14 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:58.079 killed Jane by accident in a sex game gone wrong, 15 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.079 keeping her body in a storage unit for five weeks. 16 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:05.560 He was a necrophiliac. 17 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:10.480 He found sexual pleasure in the thought of dead women. 18 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:15.840 As the police investigation against him gathered momentum, Graham Coots 19 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:20.200 proved himself to be one of the world's most evil killers. 20 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:50.719 On Friday, the fourteenth of March two thousand and three, 21 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:54.799 Jane Longhurst left the home she shared with her boyfriend 22 00:01:54.879 --> 00:02:01.640 Malcolm in Brighton, East Sussex. I've owned her best friend Lisa, 23 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:05.920 but it was Lisa's boyfriend, Graham Coots who answered. 24 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:12.080 In fact, her friend was working that day. Coots answered 25 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:17.199 the phone and suggested that they went swimming together. That 26 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:20.479 was a very common thing between the young couples. 27 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:27.280 I can only believe that Jane never saw Graham Coots, 28 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:32.560 her friend Lisa's boyfriend, as anything of a threat. Why 29 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:36.560 should she they were friends. What Jane Longhurst didn't know 30 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:43.000 was the psychiatric background of her friend Graham Coots. 31 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:47.719 Jane never made it to the swimming pool. She went 32 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:51.039 with Coots to the whole flat he and his girlfriend shared, 33 00:02:51.520 --> 00:03:02.560 unaware of what he was planning to do. This killer's 34 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:07.639 story begins in Scotland. Only child, Graham Coots was born 35 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:10.919 on the twenty third of April nineteen sixty eight in 36 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:13.080 eleven Fife. 37 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:16.599 Coots went to a local school and then in fact 38 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:22.039 the family moved south. He was not a particularly bright child. 39 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:26.360 His passion, if there was one, was to become a guitarist. 40 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.759 I think he saw himself as a sort of rock star. 41 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:36.639 From his early teens, Graham Coots displayed worrying signs of 42 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:39.159 a dysfunctional sexual appetite. 43 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:42.840 There's quite a strong history with Graham Coots of problems 44 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:46.599 with his sexual behaviors. We can see that it started 45 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:50.719 very young. He knows what is turning him on, and 46 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:55.879 he is using pornography a very very young age. The 47 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:59.879 earlier in age that these things start to manifest, the 48 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:03.439 more likely that it's going to become a much bigger problem. 49 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:05.599 Further down the line, it. 50 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:10.879 Appears that Graham Coats actually was addicted to stream pornography, 51 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:14.879 death by as fix It, all this stuff, and I 52 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:17.959 think since the age of fifteen, had a real real 53 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:22.000 thing about those forms of sexual fantasy. 54 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:26.319 In nineteen ninety one, at the age of twenty three, 55 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:30.560 Graham Coots confided in his GP that he was having 56 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:36.279 elaborate sexual fantasies about killing women. Doctor Larry Culliford was 57 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:40.360 the psychiatrist who saw Coots in Hove, where he was 58 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:41.000 then living. 59 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:49.800 It seemed to remember being perhaps surprised that this was 60 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:54.199 a person who didn't necessarily want to change. You know, 61 00:04:54.279 --> 00:05:00.000 he was having troubling thoughts, but was he really uncomfortab 62 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:04.120 with them or actually did he entertain them? That's a 63 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:07.040 question I didn't know the answer to, and still don't. 64 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:14.160 He investigated sexual pornography of the type he was interested in, 65 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:20.680 and there you're sort of feeding the impulses rather than 66 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:27.360 seeking to reduce the strength of them. 67 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:32.079 Dr Culliff had concluded that Graham Coots needed specialist help, 68 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:35.600 but Coots was never seen by anybody else. 69 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:40.120 I think if Graham Coots had been seen by a 70 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:44.879 forensic psychologist, he would have probably been invited to undertake 71 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:50.199 a battery of psychological tests and some formal risk assessment 72 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:54.399 whether to consider him a risk to others. That mental 73 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:58.120 health legislation is such that you can't lock everybody up 74 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:02.040 who might commit crime, so the probability is that he 75 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:04.319 would have been free to go at that point. 76 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:10.399 Instead of getting treatment, Graham Coots took his fantasies to 77 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:13.920 the next level, acting them out on a string of 78 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:14.759 local women. 79 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:19.199 He was going about meeting women trying to get them involved. 80 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.240 He basically would get turned on by pressing his hand 81 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:28.000 round women's necks. One of his ex girlfriends said that 82 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:32.439 he had pages and pages of pornographic material with a 83 00:06:32.600 --> 00:06:36.319 hand drawn noose on the women's necks, so clearly there 84 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:39.120 was something very wrong in his psyche. 85 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:41.040 The warning signs were clearly there. 86 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:47.079 Graham Cootz's dark impulses had reached a turning point. 87 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:50.240 When you think about whether he might have taken a 88 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:55.279 different journey through life, I think it's unlikely he wasn't 89 00:06:55.360 --> 00:07:00.040 steering himself from that path. He was intensifying whatever it 90 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:01.879 was that was going on in his head with his 91 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:08.639 pornography use by actually indulging in those fantasies with his girlfriends, 92 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:15.079 and for somebody who's doing that and in actually enjoying distress, 93 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.079 I don't see how that can't be a red flag. 94 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:31.000 In nineteen ninety seven, Kotz's sexual dysfunction escalated further when 95 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:33.439 he was charged with spying on a woman in a 96 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:37.160 swimming pool changing room in East Grinstead, Sussex. 97 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:40.639 We do have him being caught filming somebody in a 98 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:45.279 swimming pool, so he's being covert, he's being predatory, he's 99 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:52.040 being inappropriately sexual in a public place. Now it's highly 100 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:54.920 unlikely that was the first time that he'd done that. 101 00:07:56.439 --> 00:07:58.920 The case went to magistrates, but Coots was able to 102 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:04.279 persuade the magistrates that he had done nothing wrong. Victim 103 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:07.000 of this kind of unwanted attention. Was so concerned that 104 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:11.160 she contacted the justices of the piece, but he was 105 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:17.000 never brought to account for this. 106 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:19.839 This was the man who came into the life of 107 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:25.639 special educational needs teacher and talented musician Jane Longhurst. In 108 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:29.600 two thousand and one. Graham Coots was living in Hove 109 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:33.200 with his girlfriend Lisa when he met thirty one year 110 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:35.879 old Jane and her boyfriend Malcolm. 111 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:40.399 Lisa and Jane were friends. The four of them, Lisa 112 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:45.679 and Jane and Graham and Malcolm would socialize. They would 113 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:49.679 play tennis, Jane and Graham would go swimming together. 114 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:57.320 Jane Longhurst was an accomplished viola player and teacher, living 115 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:00.840 with her boyfriend of four years in Brighton, East Sussex. 116 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:09.440 Jane Longhurst was really everyone's ideal daughter. She was hard working, 117 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:13.679 she was talented. She was very close to her mum. 118 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:17.559 She taught at school in Cambridge before moving to Brighton. 119 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:21.600 She was in every sense the best of the best. 120 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:25.960 Originally from reading. Jane was close to her mother Liz 121 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:28.759 and her sister Sue, who still lived there. 122 00:09:29.879 --> 00:09:31.919 I think this was full of admiration for a daughter. 123 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:33.480 She was deeply loved. 124 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:39.759 Jane Longhurst was kind and thoughtful person who was well liked, 125 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.600 had lots of friends, and she was happy and content. 126 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:45.039 She had a lovely life. 127 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:49.039 She was planning to start a family, so you know, 128 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:50.559 she had everything to live for. 129 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:58.080 Graham Coots, on the other hand, was not having the 130 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:00.720 success he'd imagined for him. 131 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:03.159 So Graham Coots was a bit of a loser, a 132 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:06.639 drifter who'd gone through life. Wanted to be a professional 133 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.679 musician but failed at it. He had to work as 134 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:14.519 a daughter door salesman for a cleaning company. He just 135 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:16.799 wanted to be in a band, but he wasn't onto it. 136 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:18.799 He wasn't a great success in life. 137 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:25.600 Jane never saw Graham Coots there's anything of a threat. 138 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.120 She had no reason to suspect him. She didn't know 139 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:32.159 that he had a history of addiction to pornography, that 140 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:35.720 he'd been fascinated since the age of fifteen in strangling 141 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:39.720 young women. How could she, and yet he was the 142 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:44.120 most dreadful threat to her. 143 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:51.360 On the morning of Friday, the fourteenth of March two 144 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:55.240 thousand and three, Jane left her flat on Shastberry Road 145 00:10:55.360 --> 00:11:00.240 in Brighton on her day off. Her boyfriend marcam the 146 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.679 first person to raise the alarm to Jane's mother lives 147 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:05.720 when she failed to return home. 148 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:13.960 He phoned her mother to see if she'd heard from Jane, 149 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:18.120 phoned the orchestra that they both played, with no sign 150 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:23.080 of her. It was most unusual. This wasn't something that 151 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:30.039 Jane did. She was very upright, very orderly, the young woman. 152 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:37.159 This was absolutely out of character. Malcolm looked for her 153 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:41.759 himself in Brighton places they might have visited together, didn't 154 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:42.919 find her. 155 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:47.440 With still no sign of Jane into the early hours 156 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:52.240 of the following day, worried boyfriend Malcolm reported her missing 157 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:53.679 to Sussex Police. 158 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:57.639 Like any police investigation then looking to find out what 159 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:01.279 has happened to the missing person, and their lines of 160 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:05.080 inquiry will immediately fall upon the people who are closest 161 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:11.159 to Jane Longhurst, because you know, most murders are carried 162 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:12.480 out by people who are known. 163 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:20.960 The boyfriend is interrogated at length. It's pretty intimidating. You know, 164 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:25.759 the girl you clearly are very fond of has gone 165 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:30.039 missing in yours suddenly in the frame for having done 166 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:35.159 something to her or but no one including Malcolm, who 167 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:38.720 come up with any explanation about why Jane had gone missing. 168 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:42.440 You know, there was nothing in her background which suggested 169 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:46.440 that she wanted to vanish from her life that she 170 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:49.960 clearly loved, so obviously the police were immediately suspicious that 171 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:53.399 something was very amiss. 172 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:01.480 Forty eight hours after Jane's last contact, her missing person's 173 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:07.240 case was referred to the Criminal Investigation Department. Investigators analyzed 174 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:10.759 Jane's bank and phone records looking for clues as to 175 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:15.159 her whereabouts. No money had been withdrawn from her accounts 176 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.360 over the weekend, and no phone calls had been made 177 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.960 since the morning of her disappearance. This raised further concerns 178 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:27.559 over Jane's safety. The last call from Jane's phone on 179 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:30.720 Friday at ten oh five am was to the home 180 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:36.039 of her friend Lisa and Lisa's boyfriend Graham Coots. Graham 181 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:40.200 told police Jane had called looking for Lisa. He denied 182 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:42.360 having seen Jane that morning. 183 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:48.639 The police made extensive inquiries and they couldn't find anything, 184 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:54.120 and they spoke to Coots and they spoke to his partner. 185 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:59.759 Nothing and there were no signs of what had happened 186 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:02.200 to her. And it's a difficult job there for the 187 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:04.960 police because they don't know whether this is simply somebody 188 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:08.000 who maybe wandered off as a missing person or whether 189 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:11.200 it's more serious than that. Because they didn't have a 190 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:15.679 body or any scientific evidence that would show that she'd 191 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:16.120 come to. 192 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:21.159 Harm with still no sign of Jane. Five days after 193 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:25.759 her disappearance, on Wednesday, the nineteenth of March, Suseg's police 194 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.440 launched Operation Keen to find her. 195 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:34.000 They draft in extra officers, they go house to house, 196 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:40.200 they start a careful search. It doesn't reveal anything, and 197 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:45.879 after two weeks they are forced to conclude that this 198 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.960 may not be simply a missing person investigation, that it 199 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:52.559 may actually be a murder investigation. 200 00:14:53.639 --> 00:15:02.080 For five agonizing weeks, Jane remained missing. Then on Saturday, 201 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:06.559 the nineteenth of April, a motorist made a horrifying discovery 202 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:11.720 on Wiggenholt Common in West Sussex, twenty miles from Jane's 203 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:12.600 Brighton home. 204 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:17.440 A local man sees a fire in the brush and 205 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:22.559 it's got strange color flames, and in decourse the fire brigade, 206 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:28.240 they discover that the source of this fire is a body. 207 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:37.639 It is, sadly, the body of Jane Longhurst. She's been 208 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:43.360 found naked with a scarf covering her face and a 209 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:48.200 pair of tights tied round her neck. There is no 210 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:51.279 doubt in anyone's mind Jane Longhurst has been murdered. 211 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:56.159 So far, police have no motive for this murder. They 212 00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:59.480 don't know whether or not Jane knew her killer, but 213 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:02.440 they are determined to hunt down the person who carried 214 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:03.799 out this brutal crime. 215 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:07.120 The police believed she was murdered some weeks before and 216 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.080 a body preserved somewhere cold. 217 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.120 The police say, however much the killer tried to hide 218 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:14.840 Jane's body, it would have been difficult to disguise as 219 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:17.320 he brought it here. They want people to cast their 220 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:19.200 minds back to anything suspicious. 221 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:24.639 There's very few cases where an individual has done what 222 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:28.240 he's done and then deposited the body and set fart 223 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:32.000 without somebody close to that person knowing that something's not 224 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:32.559 quite right. 225 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:41.200 The discovery of Jane's body was the worst possible end 226 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:43.279 to her family's hellish weight. 227 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:49.039 This Longhurst is only just a widow getting over the 228 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:52.279 death of a much loved husband from Alzheimer's, so you know, 229 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.879 it's absolute body blow for the family. Really to have 230 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:59.919 this beloved daughter who She's so close to going miss 231 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.799 in such appalling circumstances, and for so long before the 232 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.519 body was found, that must have been just dreadful state 233 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:08.559 of limbo. 234 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:14.319 No one can prepare you for something so terrible. To 235 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:17.400 lose a loved one in such a way cannot ever 236 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:20.200 be imagined, and we would not wish what we are 237 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:22.200 going through on anyone. 238 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:27.400 We have lost someone who was very loved and so special. 239 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:30.680 Please, if you think. 240 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:41.839 You know something, then find in your kind of called police. 241 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:47.079 With those suspects in what was now a murder investigation, 242 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:51.200 the forensics team would task with uncovering what had happened. 243 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:54.440 Burning a body isn't very common, but when it does occur, 244 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:57.400 it's usually in an attempt to try and disguise identity 245 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:00.400 and try and dispose of the body. Now, identify of 246 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:04.319 burning remains can be tricky, but there are several things 247 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:09.519 which we can use. In Jane Longhair's case, the body 248 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:11.880 was identified through dental records, so that would be using 249 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:16.960 the expertise of a forensic codontologist comparing the teeth of 250 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:20.359 the deceased with any dental records which were held in 251 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:20.920 her name. 252 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:27.880 Having confirmed Jane's identity, the next question for forensic analysis 253 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:29.400 was the cause of death. 254 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:31.839 When the body was discovered, there was a pair of 255 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:35.240 tights around the neck. Now, as a pathologist, that would 256 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:38.440 be very supportive of the use of a ligature strangulation. 257 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:41.599 So using an item such as a rope or about 258 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:44.400 or in this case a pair of tights, putting those 259 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:47.240 around the neck and then pulling them tightly the ligature 260 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:50.039 that causes the blood to cease going to the brain. 261 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:56.480 With the forensic investigation underway, the police revisited the people 262 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:04.519 closest to Jane to eliminate them from suspicion. On April 263 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:08.799 twenty fourth, a detective constable interviewing Coots at his home 264 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:13.039 for a second time, noticed a crucial detail that turned 265 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:15.000 the investigation on its head. 266 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:19.279 They saw some boxes there which were from the cleaning 267 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:24.839 products company, and those were similar to the boxes that 268 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:26.000 her body was founded. 269 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:31.799 It was an important discovery for investigators. Graham Coots was 270 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:36.759 suddenly the prime suspect in the brutal murder of Jane Longhurst. 271 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.319 With nose solid alibi for the night in question, Sussex 272 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:46.079 police were confident they'd found their man. As the eyes 273 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:50.119 of the nation watched on the police, investigators focused their 274 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:55.160 efforts on their prime suspect, Graham Coots. Detectives had grown 275 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:59.480 suspicious of Coots when they found cardboard boxes that match 276 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:04.680 ones from the crime scene at his flat, and because 277 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:08.359 he couldn't provide a solid alibi for the night in question. 278 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:12.880 Coots was arrested on April twenty fourth, two thousand and three, 279 00:20:13.319 --> 00:20:17.559 but in police custody, he refused to admit to any wrongdoing. 280 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:20.279 How would you describe your left. 281 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:23.680 Friends? 282 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:27.359 Did you think more nod? 283 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:28.319 Last? 284 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:29.319 Jane? 285 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:32.960 Not so before the books came over. 286 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:39.240 And the last time is so to join. 287 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:47.400 Without a confession or more evidence to support their suspicions, 288 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:50.599 the police could only hold Coots for twenty four hours 289 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:54.920 and he was released the following day. Turning to the 290 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:58.680 public for help, detectives ramped up their search for evidence 291 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:01.440 that might link Kot to Jane's murder. 292 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:05.319 One week after Jane's body was found. Police are hoping 293 00:21:05.400 --> 00:21:08.039 these drivers will give them the vital clue they need. 294 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:11.079 Their motorists who may have been using this road last week, 295 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:14.119 they may have seen something which could lead police to 296 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:17.680 jans killer. Early evening on a Saturday, at the same 297 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:21.240 time as last week when police believed Jane longhurst body 298 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:24.000 was brought to this West Sussex beauty spot where it 299 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:26.960 was dumped and set a light. It was a light 300 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:30.359 evening on the Bank holiday weekend. Police are convinced someone 301 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:31.839 would have seen what happened here. 302 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:34.920 All these motions will be stopped and questioned as to 303 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:37.200 whether they were here last week, just to try and 304 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:39.839 jog their memories to anything at all that was out 305 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:42.240 of the ordinary, anything they may have noted that may 306 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:44.000 give us just that significant lead. 307 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:48.680 On the twenty eighth of April, Sussex Police received a 308 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:52.119 call they'd been waiting for. The manager of a local 309 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:56.079 storage company reported a strange smell coming from a unit 310 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:00.000 and a man calling himself Paul Kelly acting suspicious. 311 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:04.920 So when the manager of the storage company saw reports 312 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:09.680 in the media about Jane Longhurst being missing, he kind 313 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:13.119 of put two and two together. Initially thought it was 314 00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:16.279 the smell of a dead pigeon or some other dead animal, 315 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:20.799 but the fact that they have got a missing woman 316 00:22:20.839 --> 00:22:23.559 and there's a foul smell coming from a storage unit, 317 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:27.119 I think he thought the information was significantly important and 318 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:29.039 that the police should at least check it out. 319 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:35.039 When Sasax police came to check the CCTV footage, they 320 00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:39.960 saw Paul Kelly was in fact their main suspect, Graham Coots. 321 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:47.440 It turns out to have been Nananah than Graham Coots, 322 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:51.079 using a false name, and he's had the storage facility 323 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:52.640 for about twenty eight days. 324 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:57.920 Coots acquired the storage unit through a very simple process 325 00:22:58.200 --> 00:23:03.920 of using false information. Somebody turns up with a utility girl, 326 00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:10.279 another identification they accepted at face value. 327 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.720 Gaining entry to Coots's storage unit, the police made a 328 00:23:14.839 --> 00:23:17.839 shocking discovery. 329 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:23.799 The police open the storage facility hard by Paul Kelly, 330 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:29.880 stroke Graundcoots and discover Jane's clothing, a mail shirt with 331 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:33.519 blood and seamen on it, and a condom. 332 00:23:34.519 --> 00:23:39.039 They also found Jane's swimming costume, her cell phone, purse, 333 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:44.400 and a gas can. Forensic analysis revealed Jane's DNA on 334 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:48.599 both the bloodstain top and the used condom, which also 335 00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:55.640 contained Coots's seamen. CCTV footage showed Coots had made multiple 336 00:23:55.720 --> 00:23:59.279 visits to the unit when Jane was missing. The evidence 337 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:03.240 was overwhelming. Police finally had the proof they needed to 338 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:05.240 arrest Coots for a second time. 339 00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:08.519 The thirty five year old was arrested here just after 340 00:24:08.599 --> 00:24:11.960 nine o'clock last night without a struggle. The police say 341 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:14.279 he was one of the men they had already questioned 342 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:15.920 when Jane disappeared. 343 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:22.440 And it dawns on the police. That is entirely possible 344 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:29.319 that Coots has kept Jane's body in that storage facility 345 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:32.279 for up to five weeks. 346 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:37.160 The day before Jane's body was discovered in the woods, 347 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:41.759 CCTV footage showed Coots had moved a large cardboard box 348 00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:44.079 from his unit into a van. 349 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:47.720 He had just had a very large box with him. 350 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:52.839 You couldn't tell what was in it. There was evidence 351 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:58.079 at the storage unit to suggest that what was in 352 00:24:58.119 --> 00:25:00.880 the box had been a corpse. 353 00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:06.559 On April the thirtieth, Graham Coots was charged with murder 354 00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:13.160 at Brighton Magistrate's Court and put on remand. With Coots 355 00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:17.799 in custody, detectives seized his home computer and uncovered the 356 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:20.640 disturbing truth about him. 357 00:25:20.759 --> 00:25:24.480 Not only did he appear to be kind of porn addicted, 358 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:29.440 he was obsessed with women's necks, and he was obsessed 359 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:30.599 with strangulation. 360 00:25:31.880 --> 00:25:36.240 When the police were able to obtain the details of 361 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:41.160 the websites that he was paying for access to the 362 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:44.359 contents of his computer filled the gap, as it were, 363 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:47.200 as to why this happened in the way that it did. 364 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:54.200 Because he was looking at all this necrophilia. Graham Coots 365 00:25:56.079 --> 00:26:00.759 had found sexual pleasure in the thought of dead women, 366 00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:08.119 and he was paying to subscribe to websites which contained 367 00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:11.759 that sort of material. So his girlfriend didn't know that. 368 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:16.559 Nobody knew that, and that only came to light once 369 00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:19.759 he was arrested, and of course his computer was seized 370 00:26:20.839 --> 00:26:23.000 and then that material was found. 371 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:29.799 It was a shocking development in the case, but despite 372 00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:33.680 the mounting evidence against him, Coots refused to admit to 373 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:37.880 any crime. Then, several weeks after Coots was arrested, there 374 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:38.680 was a breakthrough. 375 00:26:39.559 --> 00:26:45.319 To everyone's surprise, Coots actually admits that he killed her 376 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:53.880 and says, and here is the most heinous part of 377 00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:59.319 it all, it was only a matter of consensual sex 378 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:00.799 had gone wrong. 379 00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:12.920 Coots claimed that Jane Longhurst had died at his flat 380 00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:16.319 on the fourteenth of March two thousand and three, the 381 00:27:16.440 --> 00:27:19.559 date of her disappearance. He said they'd stopped by his 382 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:21.880 home on their way to go swimming together. 383 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:25.200 They were driving to the leisure center and he said, 384 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:27.920 I just need to pop into the flat. The only 385 00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:30.119 account that we have of what went on in the 386 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:35.240 flat is his account, where he said they started kissing, 387 00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:40.359 they went to the bedroom, and they started having consensual 388 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:46.720 sex without a word being said between them. And he 389 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:53.599 said that just by a nod, she agreed to breath 390 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:58.839 control play during the course of the sexual intercourse, and 391 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:04.640 he used around her neck accidentally she died in that process. 392 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:05.799 Was his account. 393 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:12.599 I don't believe for one minute that there was consensual 394 00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:17.200 sex that went wrong going on between Jane and Graham Coots, 395 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:21.519 not given his history, not given the way that he 396 00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:25.200 was escalating. 397 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:29.640 After Jane's death, Coots had stored her body in his 398 00:28:29.759 --> 00:28:33.279 shed before moving it to the storage facility on the 399 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:37.359 twenty fifth of March, just days after his first interview 400 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:38.279 with the police. 401 00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:42.319