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Jun 28, 2022 · Pub landlord Ian Simms was jailed for life, after being convicted of the murder of 22-year-old Helen McCourt in February 1988. Simms was released from prison in 2020 after 32 years in prison ...
Jun 28, 2022 · Marie McCourt has said she now hopes that someone connected to murderer Ian Simms will come forward and reveal where he hid her body following his death. Reports have said Simms died last week.
Nov 8, 2023 · A local pub landlord, Ian Simms, was handed a life sentence in 1989 for Helen McCourt’s murder despite her body never being found, and he was released in 2020 and died in 2022.
- Falling Out
- Indisputable DNA Evidence
- ‘Nasty’ Letter from Killer
- Parole Board Offers ‘Sympathy’
The case is a rare example where a murder conviction has been found without the presence of a body and it was one of the first in the UK to be solved by using DNA. Helen disappeared shortly after getting off a bus less than five hundred yards from her home in the village of Billinge, St Helens, Merseyside, on 9 February 1989. Marie last spoke to he...
Police found traces of blood in Simms’ car and a woman’s opal and sapphire earring – identical to ones given to Helen for her 21st birthday – in the boot. When confronted, Simms said the blood must have been from his dog. Helen’s handbag, coat, jeans and scarf were later found in on a riverbank in Irlam, about twenty miles away, along with a flex w...
After a 15-day trial, Simms was sentenced to a minimum of 16 years. But the real sentence has been for Marie, Helen’s brother Michael, her father William and step dad John – who have endured more than 30 years of torment not knowing where her remains are, and being robbed of the chance to give her a funeral. “For 15 days I sat in that court room fo...
Despite Simms’ refusal to cooperate, in February it was decided he would be allowed out of prison for short periods of time. His successful parole hearing was the seventh time he’d been considered for release. “The parole judge accepts there is no question of his guilt. He cannot even admit what he’s done, perhaps to himself. So he is still dangero...
On 9 February 1988, Helen McCourt, a 22-year-old British insurance clerk from Bootle, Merseyside, disappeared in the village of Billinge, Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, shortly after disembarking from a bus less than 500 yards from her home. [1]
Nov 9, 2023 · A local pub landlord, Ian Simms, was handed a life sentence in 1989 for Helen McCourt's murder despite her body never having been found. He was released in 2020 and died in 2022.
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Nov 9, 2023 · A local pub landlord, Ian Simms, was handed a life sentence in 1989 for Helen McCourt's murder despite her body never having been found. He was released in 2020 and died in 2022.
