Wednesday 28 June 2006

The Murder of Heather Cooper

On 26 June 2012, The Evening Standard told us this:

"Peter Foster had previously pleaded not guilty to killing Detective Constable Heather Cooper... But the 36-year-old former detective constable, who lived with the mother-of-two in Haslemere, Surrey, changed his plea to guilty...

Miss Cooper was killed at the couple's home while she was on maternity leave with her second child... He hit her over the head 10 times with a baseball bat before stabbing her in the throat...

Sentencing Foster, Judge Richard Brown described him as an 'extremely dangerous individual' who may never be safe to be let out of prison. He said: 'This was a wicked, savage and senseless attack on a young mother in her own home. Not only have you taken her life, you have also deprived Joshua and Isabel of a loving mother and, no doubt, devastated her family and friends'.

The judge added that aggravating factors were that the attack was carried out in front of the couple's children, that the defendant was trained in martial arts, and the ferocity of the attack...

Mr Aina said Foster was known to have a 'short fuse'... He said: 'On many occasions Mr Foster had lost his temper on trivial matters and gone over the top. The violent attack is another indication of another over-reaction on his part, this time with tragic consequences'...

The court heard that Foster sent a number of text messages on the afternoon he killed Miss Cooper in a bid to create an alibi for himself. He concocted a story that she had found out he had been having an affair and was leaving him...

The court heard that he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, suspended for a year, at Portsmouth Crown Court in May 2010 for offences of drink driving and dangerous driving. The hearing was told it was this conviction that led to him resigning from Surrey Police...
In a victim impact statement read to the court, Miss Cooper's parents James and Caroline Cooper said the murder had an unimaginable impact on the two children who witnessed it...

Senior investigating officer Detective Chief Inspector Nick May, of Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team, said: 'Foster was a volatile man whose actions that day have destroyed this young family. On the afternoon of October 16, he viciously attacked Heather striking her repeatedly and with extreme force. His attempt to cover up his crime by hiding her body and trying to dispose of evidence shows he was thinking only of himself'." He murdered her in front of their children
Import an African, make him a cop, watch him kill the mother of his kids.

And, if anyone tries to warn her of the dangers before it happens, he's a racist, Fascist, Nazi bigot.

The way we live now, eh?

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