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Daily Mirror
4 days ago
- Daily Mirror
Dad left chilling note for kids to find after strangling their mum in next room
The family of Kelly Morgan, who was strangled to death by her husband George just hours after the couple watched their children in a school assembly, have opened up to Killer Britain with Demot Murgnahan about a murder which shook Britain It was a regular morning for Kelly Worgan and her husband George, who had been sitting with other parents in a school assembly. No one could have imagined that just hours later, she would be dead, strangled to death by the man who had been sitting next to her as they watched one of their children perform. Teachers only began to suspect something was wrong after they failed to pick up their kids from school later that day, and didn't answer their phones. At 4.43pm the school called the police, who managed to get a key from their landlord to gain access to their house. As soon as they opened the door, they saw a chilling note left in the middle of the stairs: 'Please don't let the little ones go into the front room.' The note continued: 'No more suffering. I'm sorry, got pushed too far this time. Daddy loves you.' In the living room, detectives found Kelly slumped on the floor with the back of her head resting on the armchair, and ligature marks clearly visible on her neck. She had been strangled to death. The horrifying murder in Avonmouth, just outside Bristol, in November 2018 is being retold in Sunday's episode of hit true crime series Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan on the Crime+Investigation channel. Detectives knew prime suspect George Morgan had to be caught quickly - but unbeknownst to them, police 300 miles away in Cumbria were already pursuing him, thinking his only crime was petrol theft and dangerous driving. A BMW was driving dangerously on the northbound carriageway of the M6 after reportedly failing to pay for petrol. The driver had failed to pull over when a police vehicle approached. Officers got ahead of him and deployed a stinger, puncturing his tyres. When police arrested him and put his name in the national computer, they discovered he was wanted for murder. Speaking to the programme, Kelly's dad Paul, who is partially-sighted, remembers the moment he found out their son-in-law was suspected of strangling their daughter. 'After that telephone call, my wife was very upset and went upstairs crying, and my legs collapsed, and I fell on the floor crying like a baby. My guide dog came in and cuddled me. That's how bad it hit us. I'll always remember that,' he said. Kelly's parents were given full custody of her two children. 'The landlord phoned us up to make arrangements for us to go down to get some of the children's belongings,' he remembers. 'What can you do? You're actually where your daughter took her last breath. I just sat there and cried.' Charged with Kelly's murder, as well as dangerous driving, Worgan maintained his innocence, claiming he hadn't killed her and that he couldn't remember what had happened on that day. But as the investigation progressed, it became clear that behind the facade of a happy family, Kelly had been trapped in a violent and controlling relationship. Kelly had met George in 2011 when he got a job as a bus driver in the Bristol company where she worked. Eight months into the relationship, he asked her father for his daughter's hand in marriage. The family were delighted, but soon began to notice some worrying red flags. Kelly's sister Hannah remembers: 'They seemed to get on fine like a happy couple. But it was weird. She's very motherly, independent, her own person. But with George she was a completely different sister." Within two years, Kelly was expecting their second child. Hannah remembers: 'When he was at our place, it was like a show, he would be more involved with the children, changing their nappies and playing with them, or feeding them their bottles. But when it was at his own place, it was like Kelly was doing everything, the cooking, cleaning, looking after the new-born children. When she got to our place it felt like she was just tired all the time.' Dad Paul recalls: 'When George went to work on the buses, Kelly used to be alone in the flat, so we used to invite her up so she wouldn't be on her own. But Kelly always made up excuses.' She also discouraged her family from visiting her. Sister Hannah says: 'My mum was like, 'Why don't you go down keep your sister company?'. And when I tried to ask you she was like, 'Oh I'll have to ask George'. And I'm like, But I'm asking you, you're my sister, and I'm not asking him when thats nothing to do with him. It was a bit weird. It got to a point where it felt uncomfortable for me, like I was invading their privacy.' Tragically, only after her death would they find out the truth, after Kelly's medical records revealed she had suffered a series of injuries during this period, one of which resulted in a trip to A&E. A port-mortem also revealed old bruises on her body, while during an interview prior to trial the Worgans' children told how they had previously seen their father strangling their mother. Worgan unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty at his trial in May 2019. He was sentenced to life in prison. In their victim impact statement, Kelly's dad, Paul, and mum, Glynnis, described the effect on their grandchildren. 'Two days after the children came to stay with us and they have remained with us ever since. We had to tell them their mummy had died. 'Now neither of the children want to sleep in their own bed and and ask to go to her grave so they can talk to her. The biggest question we have is why? We trusted him and treated him as a son and as a part of our family. We now struggle with the concept of who we can trust." Speaking to the programme, Paul says he still feels like he's living 'in a nightmare, and it's not going to end. I feel l made the biggest mistake ever. I feel I handed my daughter over to a murderer.'
Daily Mirror
20-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
Mum desperately tried to escape killer ex before he butchered her on school run
A new series of Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan delves into the shocking stabbing of a young mother on the school run and reveals heartbreaking details about her final moments A mum who was stabbed to death on the school run by her ex-husband in front of their three-year-old daughter knew he was capable of killing her and tried to raise the alarm in the days and hours before her brutal murder. Ricardo Godinho repeatedly stabbed ex-wife Aliny Godinho in broad daylight, and in front of other terrified mothers, as she walked with her little girl to collect her two sons from school in Epsom, Surrey. A court later heard the heartbreaking words of the the distraught girl after seeing her father kill her mother in 2019: "Mummy's not coming back". The couple, who had separated months before the attack on February 8, 2019, had moved together from Brazil to live in the UK, but Aliny soon found herself in an abusive and controlling relationship. But after she had found the courage to leave him, obsessive Godinho continued to follow her movements by using the Find My iPhone function to track where she was, despite being told by police not to make contact with Aliny or their children following accusations of abusive behaviour and coercive control. He had also found a way to read her messages and emails, and was a member of a WhatsApp group that Aliny's friends used to support her without them knowing. Portuguese journalist Duarte Mendonça told Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan: "He had access to an old SIM card that used to belong to Aliny, and no one in that group ever noticed it. So, for the longest time, Ricardo was able to keep track of every single conversation of every single move, and it was only up until the day that Ricardo decided to leave the group. 'And they saw the stamp mark saying, 'Aliny has left the group. ' The group realised that he was there the whole time.' But despite breaking his bail conditions many times, no further action was taken by police. It was later found that Godinho had been using Google to search for how a Brazilian man had murdered his wife. Aliny discovered that he had been reading her emails, WhatsApp messages and following her location on the day of her death, and once again reported him to the police. But while her friends begged her to go in person to the police station and stay there to keep herself safe, she continued on her daily routine, picking up her other children from school. Her friend, Lucienne Monteiro, revealed that the mother was already convinced that Godinho wanted to kill her, but believed that he would never attempt to attack her if she was with their daughter. She said: 'She believed that she was safe because of the children. So, from that week, she took her little child, the girl with her to school every day, because she felt protected. The little one was his favourite one. So, she thought like he won't hurt her.' In the afternoon, she started the school run at 2:38 p.m. CCTV captured Aliny catching the bus from where she was staying in Streatham to Epsom, along with her daughter, getting off the bus at 2:55 pm. Godinho was waiting for them in his pick-up truck when they got off. He mounted the grass verge alongside where they were walking, jumped out of the vehicle and started stabbing her repeatedly, before dropping the murder weapon and driving off. Surrey Coroner's Court later heard the attack happened in just 17 seconds as Mrs Godinho held their young daughter's hand. Prosecutors said the crime was premeditated and motivated by 'his anger and resentment that his wife was seeking a new life for her and her children." Lucienne remembers finding out her worst fears had come true: 'We were watching TV or something when my phone rang. And then when I picked up the phone, a friend of ours, he said, Aliny has just being killed, stabbed by Ricardo. I threw my telephone away and I started screaming. I never felt so bad in my life like that day. 'She didn't have the time to defend herself. She didn't have any marks on the arm or anything, it was really fast. They said that he stabbed her and then, as she was falling down, he kept stabbing her, without saying anything. And then when he'd done that, he just looked at his little one, and then he walked away.' He began to drive to a police station to surrender, but his vehicle was stopped, and he was arrested around an hour and a half after the attack .He began to drive to a police station to surrender, but his vehicle was stopped, and he was arrested around an hour and a half after the attack. He was found guilty of murder and possessing an offensive weapon by Guildford Crown Court and sentenced to life with a minimum of 27 years in July 2019. However, when he was transferred to a prison in Brazil in 2022, it meant his sentence was changed to 30 years in jail.
Daily Mirror
19-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
Harrowing final moments of mum murdered in front of daughter on school run
A new series of Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan delves into the shocking stabbing of a young mother on the school run and reveals heartbreaking details about her final moments The last words a mum heard after she was stabbed to death on the school run in front of her young daughter have been revealed in a new TV documentary. Ricardo Godinho repeatedly stabbed ex-wife Aliny Godinho, 39, in broad daylight, and in front of other terrified mothers, as she walked with her little girl to collect her two sons from school in Epsom, Surrey. The frenzied knife attack on February 8, 2019, happened in just 17 seconds as Ms Godinho held her three-year-old daughter's hand. The couple, who had moved together from Brazil to live in the UK, had separated in December 2018. Godinho, 41, who had followed them in his car, was later arrested and confessed to the crime, but he would only admit to manslaughter during his trial. A new episode of Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan has pieced together Ms Godinho's last hours, during which unbeknown to her she was being tracked by her ex-husband using her phone's Find My iPhone function. CCTV images captured Aliny catching the bus at 2.38pm from where she was staying in Streatham to Epsom, along with her daughter. She got off the bus at 2:55 pm to collect her other children from school. Godinho was waiting for them in his pick-up truck when they got off. He mounted the grass verge alongside where they were walking, jumped out tof he vehicle and started stabbing her repeatedly, before dropping the murder weapon and driving off. A friend of Aliny revealed that the mother was already convinced that Godinho wanted to kill her, but believed that he would never attempt to attack her if she was with their daughter. Lucienne Monteiro told the programme: 'She believed that she was safe because of the children. So, from that week, she took her little child, the girl, with her to school every day, because she felt protected. The little one was his favourite one. So, she thought like he won't hurt her.' But she was wrong. Ms Monteiro said: 'She didn't have the time to defend herself. She didn't have any marks on the arm or anything; it was really fast. They said that he stabbed her and then, as she was falling down, he kept stabbing her, without saying anything. And then when he'd done that, he just look at his little one and then he walk away.' A court later heard how the distraught girl told a witness immediately after seeing her father kill her mother: "Mummy's not coming back". Revealing the last words Ms Godinho heard, Ms Monteiro told how a bystander who had witnessed the horrific murder went up to her as she lay dying and reassured her that Godinho had not injured her daughter. She said: "As a mother, I guess you can imagine in your mind, to be going that way and scared that something was happening with her little one,' she says. "So this lady came and said to her, 'your baby's OK'. So I hope she went in peace." Godinho was found guilty of murder and possessing an offensive weapon by Guildford Crown Court and sentenced to life with a minimum of 27 years in July 2019. However, when he was transferred to a prison in Brazil in 2022, it meant his sentence was changed to 30 years in jail.
Daily Mirror
19-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
'My friend was killed on school run by vile ex - she made a chilling prediction'
A new series of Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan delves into the shocking stabbing of a young mother on the school run and reveals heartbreaking details about her final moments It was a crime that shocked Britain - the violent murder of a mum while on the school run by her estranged partner, and in front of their three-year-old daughter. Ricardo Godinho repeatedly stabbed ex-wife Aliny Godinho in broad daylight, and in front of other terrified mothers, as she walked with her little girl to collect her two sons from school in Epsom, Surrey. A court later heard how the distraught girl told a witness immediately after seeing her father kill her mother in 2019: "Mummy's not coming back". Now, in a new episode of Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan, which has uncovered new details of the case, a friend reveals new information about the days and hours before the mum-of-three's harrowing death. And she reveals how a shocked bystander who witnessed the murder made the extraordinary gesture of letting the dying mother know that her daughter had not been hurt as she took her last breaths. Aliny, 39, had just stepped off the bus with her daughter when Godinho, 41, launched the terrifying attack with a kitchen knife on February 8, 2019. The couple, who had moved together from Brazil to live in the UK, had separated in December 2018. Godinho, who had followed them in his car, was later arrested and confessed to the crime, but he would only admit to manslaughter during his trial. During the inquest, Surrey Coroner's Court heard the attack happened in just 17 seconds as Mrs Godinho held their young daughter's hand. Prosecutors said the crime was premeditated and motivated by 'his anger and resentment that his wife was seeking a new life for her and her children." He was found guilty of murder and possessing an offensive weapon by Guildford Crown Court and sentenced to life with a minimum of 27 years in July 2019. However, when he was transferred to a prison in Brazil in 2022, it meant his sentence was changed to 30 years in jail. Lucienne Monteiro, a Brazilian friend of Aliny in the UK, told the programme that the mother knew that her ex-husband wanted to kill her, but believed he would never harm her if she was with their daughter, who was Godinho's 'favourite' child. She remembers: 'I asked her, 'Aliny, do you think Ricardo will do anything bad to you?' And then she said to me, 'I think if you get to him in a bad moment and I am alone without the children he would do it. But if I am with one of the children, he wouldn't do it. So, she believed that she was safe because of the children. 'So, from that week, she took her little child, the girl with her to school every day, because she felt protected. The little one was his favourite one. So, she thought like he won't hurt her.' She remembers finding out her worst fears had come true: 'We were watching TV or something when my phone rang. And then when I picked up the phone, a friend of ours, he said, Aliny has just being killed, stabbed by Ricardo. I threw my telephone away and I started screaming I never felt so bad in my life like that day. 'She didn't have the time to defend herself. She didn't have any marks on the arm or anything, it was really fast. They said that he stabbed her and then as she was falling down he kept stabbing her, without saying anything. And then when he'd done that, he just look at his little one and then he walk away.' But she reveals one moment that has given her comfort. "As a mother, I guess you can imagine in your mind, to be going that way and scared that something was happening with her little one,' she says. "So this lady came and said to her, 'your baby's OK'. So I hope she went in peace." The Crime+Investigation series episode, which airs tonight, also revealed that Godinho had been following Aliny's movements without her knowing, by using the Find My iPhone to track where she was - despite being told by police not to make contact with Aliny or their children following accusations of abusive behaviour and coercive control. He had also found a way to read her messages and emails, and was a member of a WhatsApp group that Aliny's friends used to support her without them knowing. Portuguese journalist Duarte Mendonça explained: "He had access to an old SIM card that used to belong to Aliny and no one in that group ever noticed it. So, for the longest time, Ricardo was able to keep track of every single conversation of every single move, and it was only up until the day that Ricardo decided to leave the group. 'And they saw the stamp mark saying, 'Aliny has left the group' the group realised that he was there the whole time.' But despite breaking his bail conditions many times, no further action was taken by police. It was later found that Godinho had been using Google to search for how a Brazilian man had murdered his wife. Friend Luciene also remembered how Aliny was reluctant to go to the police about the danger she felt she was in. 'She says: 'Somebody from his family sent her a message saying that Ricardo said that he was going to kill her. So, I told her, to go to the police and showed this message from this person. And then she said to me that she didn't want to cause any problems between him and this person of his family. She was really worried about the relationship between those people.' It was on the day of her death when Aliny realised Godinho had access to her emails, WhatsApp messages and location, and reported it to the police at 11.30am - but continued on her daily routine, picking up her children from school. In the afternoon she started the school run at 2:38 p.m. CCTV captured Aliny catching the bus from where she was staying in Streatham to Epsom, along with her daughter, getting off the bus at 2:55 pm. Godinho, who had tracked her using Find My iPhone, was waiting for them in his pick-up truck when they got off. He mounted the grass verge alongside where they were walking, jumped out the vehicle and started stabbing her repeatedly, before dropping the murder weapon and driving off. He began to drive to a police station to surrender, but his vehicle was stopped, and he was arrested around an hour and a half after the attack. Psychologist Emma Kenny told the programme: "When you think about how Godinho attacks Aliny, it's on the school run. It's in front of other parents, it's in front of his three-year-old daughter, that is so symbolic of how fixated he was on ending her life. He doesn't care about witnesses. He doesn't care about the future.' It showed the murder was premeditated. 'He said, 'It wasn't my fault. It was a heat of the moment thing. It was manslaughter. I was driven to it essentially'. But the problem with that is that manslaughter would show that there was no premeditation, the level of premeditation and the execution of the actual crime shows a huge amount of planning behind it.' Friend Luciene says she will never forget her. She says: 'She was like my little sister, but he was my friend. I never thought like he would do something this to her because Aliny, she was like, I think she was not from this planet. She was so kind, so calm. So nice, full of grace, harmless. She was like this. She was so sweet.'
Daily Record
10-05-2025
- Daily Record
Wife's heartbreaking last words accidentally recorded by husband who murdered her
Andrew Parsons' murder of wife Janee features in a new true crime series. The story of how audio footage captured the moment a man killed his wife in jealous rage will be told in a new true-crime series. Former newsreader Dermot Murnaghan is fronting Killer Britain, which starts on Monday. Dermot, 67, said he was struck by 'how ordinary a lot of these events are, until they lead to the extraordinary awfulness of the murder.' One case covered in the ten-part series on the Crime + Investigation channel is how Andrew Parsons, 38, attacked wife Janee, 31, in their Bicester home in front of their young son on December 1, 2012. He was caught after the murder was recorded on a dictation machine he had hidden under a bed to spy on his wife, which captured their young son's screams and Janee mumbling words of prayer before she died. She was heard saying: 'Oh my God, no, no, dear God forgive me for my sins.' Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. Another case includes the 2021 murder of Michaela Hall, 49, a former airline flight attendant who was stabbed through the eye by her violent boyfriend Lee Kendall, after he had abused her for two years. Dermot told the Mirror: 'Everyone knows people who are in deteriorating or inappropriate relationships. A lot of the stories in this series are about really nice human beings who trusted someone else utterly, and they were turned upon and paid for it with their lives. 'The case of Janee Parsons particularly stuck in my mind. Again, it is a common scenario, the breakdown of a relationship, a jealous partner obsessed with the other who is trying to build a new life. 'Her murder was recorded by the boyfriend's own dictation machine, which was what ultimately caught him, that was the chilling, extraordinary thing about the case.' Many of the murders were stories Dermot remembers covering during his 30-year career presenting news on ITV, BBC and Sky. He said: 'That's why in this series I talk more about my own involvement. But it's not about me, it's first and foremost about the victim, and about their family and friends, so that people can hear their stories.' The show, now in its fifth run, delves into some of Britain's most chilling murder cases, with first-hand accounts from detectives as well as the heartrending testimony of victims' families. Former Sky News anchor, Dermot, said he finds it 'incredibly frustrating' to just be a normal TV viewer and not in the interviewer's seat these days. 'I'm throwing soft shoes at the television screen and knocking the radio over when I hear it, because that's my obsession, I can't give it up. 'If I hear another politician say 'nothing's off the table' or 'we're doing this for the national interest', I'm just screaming, 'Of course you are, but what are you doing?! What the heckity-heck does that mean?' 'There are some brilliant people operating, way, way better than me. But I think the politicians have got way more adept at side-stepping questions.' But he doesn't hold back on seeing his former colleagues flogging gold sovereigns during the ad breaks. Dermot says he's not 'naming names', but he's clearly referring to former fellow newsreaders Michael Burke and Nicholas Owen, who have both appeared in commercials selling gold coins for Hattons of London. He said: 'When you're a live newsreader you're banned by Ofcom from advertising anything, because you have a degree of credibility. But once you stop, you can, and some of my former colleagues do. Some of the things they advertise, well, I'm going to leave it there, I wouldn't.' But he doesn't leave it there: 'I may be cutting off a lucrative revenue stream for myself, but gold sovereigns at four times the price that they actually do cost, yeah, I wouldn't do that. 'Let me say to anyone who sees this, you can get gold sovereigns, if you want them - I don't have any, but just look up the price - cheaper than those being pumped towards you by some former news people.' Dermot was destined to become a historian after completing a history degree and masters, but turned to journalism, working on local newspapers in the 80s before joining Channel 4 as a researcher, where he also got his first opportunities in front of the camera. Presenting the biggest news programmes on all three terrestrial channels, he became one of the most trusted faces on TV and covered the biggest stories, including breaking the news of the death of Princess Diana and the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. He finally signed off Sky News after 16 years with a quote from newsreader movie Anchorman, throwing his news notes from his desk with the words: 'You stay classy, planet Earth. Goodbye.' But despite his frustration with now having to watch the news from his sofa, Dermot insists he doesn't miss breaking it. 'Not at all, really, really not,' he says. 'I've done my innings, I hope I was decent at it, at least semi- coherent, but you can't be there forever. 'It was just hectic. I mean, I don't think I ever went on a holiday when I didn't expect to be called back from it. Now I get to chill, grow a beard, do things I've always wanted to. I did a big tour of Vietnam and Singapore, absolutely untrammelled by the idea that something might happen to cut it short.' His wife of 36 years, Maria Keegan, on the other hand, has taken more convincing, he says. 'It's the first time I haven't been employed by a big organisation. Suddenly I was at home a lot more and there was a sense of, 'Oh OK, we'll have to get used to this then, this is different'. I think the same as before would have suited her I expect. 'But we've got our own friends, we do our own things, I got out on my bike, I go away on breaks with my mates.' Making their north London home even more crowded are two of Dermot's four adult children aged between 23 and 33 who have recently moved back in. He says: 'Like a lot of families, they're following different paths but accommodation is very expensive and as for buying anything… young people these days have no chance. 'One's an environmentalist, another is in something I don't understand, metaverse marketing or something, one's a football coach and another's in PR.' There are no grandfather duties expected soon, but Dermot says: 'I've no comment to make on that. They're fully grown adults and their plans for the future are obviously up to them. But you know, if I could drop a gentle hint to them, it would be 'Get a crack on lad, whenever you want'.' In the meantime, though, the veteran newsman has got several big projects of his own. He's finally getting round to writing his memoirs, and also hints that he's following in the footsteps of other former TV journalists and will soon be launching a podcast. He says: 'The memoir is one of the things I'm tinkering at. Every now and again I pull some of my notes out and think, 'oh my goodness, I interviewed that person'. Another extraordinary moment that came to mind the other day was on the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, I was lucky enough to interview the woman who was the closest to ground zero. 'So many people were vaporised and she wasn't far away, but survived and had horrible cancers. I remember sitting in a park with tears pouring down my cheeks as she expressed forgiveness, after all that had happened to her. She made me an origami crane, which I found the other day upstairs in the attic with the rest of the dusty memories.' Yet another is his infamous interview with then Labour minister Peter Mandelson, who resigned from the cabinet in 1999 after Dermot questioned him over the way he had filled out a mortgage application, an exchange which won him the Royal Television Society Interviewer of the Year award. Dermot admits he'd like to use his well-known no-nonsense interviewing skills on Donald Trump. 'I think because you really have got someone who doesn't know what is true and what isn't, what is real and what's not,' he says. 'Yes I'd like to interview him, but I'd also like to nail jelly to a wall. And if I did I'm sure I'd then get barred from the United States forevermore, and get a huge on air telling off.'
