Mr Speak went on "Katy would be contacted by the fictitious characters and, believing them to be real, she would talk to them on Facebook. Opening the case to the jury, prosecutor Michael Speak said: "Why did he trick her into meeting in a muddy field in the cold and dark in Borehamwood? Could it be that he had planned to kill her then but something went wrong? Why go to such bizarre lengths to get her to come out late at night, pretending another woman would be there." When nobody turned up Katy and Bushby left Three days earlier Bushby, who had met Katy at West Herts College in Watford, had lured her to a field on the outskirts of the town claiming they were to meet one of his fictional friends called Cyn Darwin. There were 13 significant stab wounds and 23 in total - some of which were defensive injuries that 19-year-old Katy suffered as she tried to protect herself. Pathologist Dr Nat Carey said the immediate cause of death was a severe wound to the neck that penetrated both her jugular veins and a stab wound to the stomach that penetrated her vital organs. The art student, who also used the name Katy Briscoe, was stabbed in a frenzied attack on Boxing Day night, the jury at St Albans crown court was told. When her mother, Joy Davis, called to check on them the children ran down the stairs of the house saying: "Grandma, Grandma Katy's dead." The judge has passed a life sentence on Bushby with a minimum term of 25 years in prison before he can even be considered for parole.Ĭatherine, who was known as Katy, was found in a pool of blood by her nephew and niece - aged 3 and 4 - in the kitchen of her sister's house in Beech Drive, Borehamwood, Herts on the morning of December 27 last year. Judge Andrew Bright QC sentenced the teenager today (Weds) after reading a psychiatric report about the teenager. Today at St Albans Crown Court Bushby was found guilty of Catherine's murder. A man who murdered a teenage babysitter he targeted in a "malicious web of deception" has been sentenced to a minimum of 25 years behind bars.īlack belt karate-teacher Tony Bushby, 19, created four sinister fake Facebook identities to convince naive church-goer Catherine Wynter to trust him and like him.Īt the same time he was viewing pornographic and rape websites and carrying out Google searches in which he asked chilling questions such as : "How long does it take to dig a grave by hand?" and "How long does it take to burn a human body?"
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