Martial arts expert Alan Jermey tried to mask the murder of his partner with a house fire before calling 999.
The 41-year-old was jailed in 2009 after his trial revealed what really happened to Kirsty Wilson at their family home in Surrey.
A new episode of the Channel 5’s documentary series A Killer Makes A Call airs on Tuesday 18 March at 10pm featuring interviews with those involved in the case and details of the subsequent police investigation and trial.
We take a look at the background to this murder and what has happened to the killer at the centre of the case.
Alan Jermey was a car salesman working near Heathrow, who had a black belt in kung fu and training in taekwondo.
He met Ms Wilson in 1999, a year later they bought a house together before moving to their four-bedroom family home in Woking in Surrey in 2004.
Ms Wilson, 34, was originally from Bradford, West Yorkshire and had trained as a teacher before going to work as a graduate trainee at Tony Purslow Mercedes dealership in Basingstoke, Hampshire in 1998.
The couple had two daughters, aged just seven and three at the time of the murder.
In the spring of 2007, Ms Wilson began an affair with her boss at work, managing director Simon Goddard, who was married with children.
By 2008, Mr Goddard had left his wife and children and he and Ms Wilson were planning a new life together.
In the May of that year, Ms Wilson told Jermey she felt their relationship was over and she was leaving him.
She had not disclosed the full extent of her romance with Mr Goddard, as she feared what her partner may do to her or her new lover.
Kirsty Wilson was found dead at her home in Woking in August 2008Jermey, who was several thousand pounds in debt, was afraid of losing the £450,000 house and his children so he began plotting his partner’s death. He secretly ordered a 100,000-volt stun gun over the internet and removed the batteries from the smoke alarm at the family home.
Then on the evening of 26 August, 2008 while their children were asleep upstairs, he knocked out Ms Wilson with the stun gun and throttled her.
He then arranged her body to look like she had fallen asleep watching television, covered her in petrol from the lawnmower and set her alight to hide evidence of her murder.
He expected the fire to take hold in the house but it did not.
As smoke filled the property, he ushered his daughters out of the house through a bathroom window onto a flat roof and then called 999 just before midnight.
He told police he had left Ms Wilson watching TV alone while he had gone to bed and was only woken by the smell of smoke.
Firefighters rescued Jermey and his daughters from the roof and found Ms Wilson’s burnt body in the living room.
A post-mortem later revealed she was already dead when the fire started, as there was no smoke in her lungs, and there was bruising around her neck consistent with strangulation.
Where is Alan Jermey now?
Jermey was arrested on suspicion of murder shortly after the fire and then charged two days later.
At his trial at the Old Bailey in London, Jermey claimed Ms Wilson must have been killed by a mystery intruder.
However, the court heard no valuables had been stolen, the front door was locked and £200 in cash was still in the kitchen.
Firefighter Paul Bills told the Old Bailey he was surprised not to hear shouting or screaming when he arrived at the family property.
“There was a question put to him [Jermey], ‘Is there anyone inside?’ to which he said, ‘My partner is downstairs’ … in a very calm way,” Mr Bills said.
Firefighters said Jermey could have entered the living room to rescue his partner as there was very little smoke.
Giving evidence, the car salesman said he had accepted the split from Ms Wilson and had been sleeping with women he contacted via Facebook.
He added: “I am not a person to lose my temper at all.
“I am quite a steady pragmatic person. I don’t see any point in raising my voice.”
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On 3 July, 2009, Jermey was found guilty of Ms Wilson’s murder. He was later jailed for life, to serve a minimum of 16 years in prison.
Judge Martyn Zeidman said: “You have done a wicked act, murdering the mother of your own young children.
“How do you explain to a child of that age that they will never see mummy again?
“Kirsty was an utterly exceptional person. She was kind, vibrant, beautiful, honest, very sociable, and with a great sense of humour.
“She will be missed desperately by all who had the privilege of knowing her.
“You have done a terrible thing.”
After the trial, Detective Inspector Paul Monk of Surrey Police said: “Jermey was consumed with jealousy and rage.
“He violently murdered the mother of his children and set fire to her, hoping that their family home would go up in flames, and crudely covered up the killing.
“He may have perversely believed that by taking Kirsty’s life he could ignore the collapse of their relationship and retain full custody of their children.
“In fact, his wicked act has deprived two young girls of both their parents.”
A parliamentary document from March 2021 about the effects of studying in prison revealed Jermey had been working towards an Open University degree while in prison and was planning on “completing a doctorate when I get to D category [lower security prisons]”.
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