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DAVID TILEY

Kill Total:

2

Kill place:

Southampton

Kill date:

March 2007

Victim(s):

Susan Hale

Sarah Merritt

Date of Birth:

1960

Marital Status:

Single

AKA:

Occupation:


March 2007, Tiley murdered his disabled fiancée Susan Hale and, a week later, her home carer Sarah Merritt at Ms Hale's flat in Southampton.

Susan was last seen alive on 5th March and their bodies were found on 15th March 2007.

4th June 2007, Tiley admitted both murders at his trial, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The trial judge recommended that he should never be released from prison.

After his trial, it was revealed that Tiley had received a six-year jail term for rape in 1995 and after his release had returned to prison three times for failing to inform police of his whereabouts.

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