Overview
- Judge Paul Thomas KC said Williams was subjected to a prolonged, savage and merciless attack in her own flat.
- A Home Office post-mortem recorded fatal blunt force head trauma, and investigators recovered a knife, scissors and a frying pan bearing Battenbough’s DNA.
- Forensic tests found Battenbough’s semen in the victim, but experts could not determine timing or whether any sexual activity was consensual.
- CCTV showed the pair entering her Townhill home on February 24; police found her body concealed under towels and blankets on February 27.
- Battenbough had recently been released from prison on licence and offered no explanation for the killing, as family voiced concern over his supervision and police released bodycam footage of his March 1 arrest.