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Kill Total: |
3+ ? |
Kill place: |
Birmingham |
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Kill date: |
November 2000 |
Victim(s): |
Jodie Hyde Rosemary
Corcoran Carol Jordan |
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Date of Birth: |
1966 |
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9th November 2000,The smouldering body of Jodie
Hyde aged 21, was found near an adventure play area in
Birmingham. Jodie was a drug addict who had made friends
with Smith in the Rainbow pub in Digbeth, Birmingham. He
then took her back to his flat
After he killed her, her
naked body was put into the back of Smith's Volvo car
and driven to open land at Ackers Trust, an adventure
play area in Birmingham.
He wrapped the body in a blanket and bound with a green
rope.
Her body had received 60% burns and had to be identified
by her fingerprints.
A post-mortem examination
showed she had been strangled before being rolled up in
a carpet and set on fire.
12th November 2000, Smith then battered to
death Rosemary Corcoran aged 25, and Carol Jordan aged
39.
Smith had beaten Miss
Corcoran with such force that she was physically
unrecognisable.
Identification of her body was only possible through
fingerprints and dental records after her jaw was put
back together.
Her body was discovered in
a lane close to the Robin Hood pub at Rashwood, near
Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire.
20 miles away in Lea Bank,
Birmingham, a dog walker found the battered body of
mother-of-six Rosemary Jordan in parkland.
Mrs Jordan had been knocked
down by Smith as she walked to work. She had been badly
beaten and had to be identified through her dental
records.
Hours before Ms Corcoran's
body was found, Smith was caught on CCTV violently
struggling with her outside a club in Handsworth.
A few hours later, a pensioner said they saw a man
fitting Smith's description, with bloodstained clothing,
filling a petrol can in Bromsgrove, a neighbouring town
to Droitwich.
Experts from the Forensic
Science Service in Birmingham analysed a massive amount
of evidence in this case, the results linked Smith to
each victim.
Wednesday 18th July,
2001, Originally denying all charges, halfway
through his trial at Leicester Crown Court, Smith
changed his plea to guilty.
Smith was sentenced to
life imprisonment with a minimum 25 years.
After Smith, was jailed,
West Midlands Police Chief Superintendent Ellie Baker
said: "Philip Smith is already a triple killer and we
would be wrong to leave it at that, we need to search
further."
Investigations will go back 20 years across several
forces but at present, detectives say he is not being
positively linked with any unsolved crimes at this time.
Leicester Crown Court
Prosecuting - Mr Tim
Raggatt QC
Defence - Rachel Brand QC
Judge - Mrs Justice
Rafferty
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