Overview
- Mohammed Durnion received an 18-year term Thursday at Warwick Crown Court, with two-thirds to be served in prison, after a jury found him guilty of manslaughter by an 11-1 majority.
- Judge Kristina Montgomery KC said fractures in Reanne Coulson’s neck showed a hand had been placed around it, indicating strangulation.
- He hid her body under a mattress, then used a suitcase to move it to Binley Woods where he burned part of it with petrol before burying it in a shallow grave.
- Police first visited his Coventry flat after a neighbour’s 999 call but missed the hidden body, and he later led officers to the grave after seeing his victim’s family appeal.
- Adam Moore was jailed for six years for assisting an offender by helping to dispose of the body in the woods.