A 22-year- the old man was found guilty of in murder of police community support Officer Julia James.
Callum Wheeler won mother-of from two to death how she walked her dog in fields and forests around back of her home in Snowdown, Kent.
Mrs James was off duty on noon of April 27 last year when she was killed by a loner who attacked her with railway jack, a tool used to raise railway tracks, resulting in in “catastrophic injury”.
He was seen wandering around countryside with weapons eve 53-year- the old woman died near Ackholt Wood, and in hundreds of days later of police officers searched area for hints.
Eyewitnesses provided important footage of Wheeler near the scene, including gamekeeper Gavin Tucker, who took video clip and photo of the killer walks by with jack in blue travel bag the day after she was killed.
When the photo of Wheeler was released to the public, he was identified within hours and arrested.
Wheeler told officers that “sometimes I do things I can’t control” and “you can’t go into the woods and expect to be safe.”
He also told a member of police officers that he would return to the forest and rape and kill woman, and what Mrs. James deserved die.
The police used the data from the watch to determine where she was attacked.
Detectives used data from her Apple Watch to find out where and when she walked her Jack Russell and pinpointed exactly where she was attacked.
The data showed her heart rate and walking pace spike at the moment she is believed to have spotted Wheeler in woodland, and changed her itinerary home in attempt escape.
Mrs James saw him in Same location before, and described it to her husband Paul as a “really weird dude”.
But, in inexplicable outbreak of violence, who lived in next to Ailesham, beat her up death and left.
Jack handle taken from Wheeler. house
No explanation from Wheeler
He had nothing to do with mother-of-two, and offered no explanation for what he did when he was being questioned by the police.
Alison Morgan QC said Mrs James was left with some of the most serious head injuries ever seen by a pathologist in case, and suffered “repeated blows to her head”.
wheeler, who admitted killing Mrs James was convicted of her murder at Canterbury Crown Court.
jury of eight women and four men took less than one an hour and 10 minutes to find him guilty.
wheeler, who He is being held in a maximum security psychiatric hospital in Broadmoor. in Berkshire did not respond to the conviction.
wheeler saw in Eilesham, Kent, the day after killing
Detective Superintendent Gavin Moss who led the hunt for Wheeler said the case was particularly poignant. for in force.
He said: “In death of Julia had real ramifications throughout the organization because it was one of our.
“What had to happen was that justice we needed to win and we needed to do what we did to catch Callum Wheeler, who was a very dangerous person.
“He caused her catastrophic injury.”
