A lifelong dream to strangle, rape and murder

THE jury which convicted Graham Coutts accepted the shocking reality that he acted out on the helpless Jane Longhurst his lifelong fantasy of strangling, raping and killing a woman.

What they were never told was that Coutts made a grim and terrifying prediction that he would, one day, actually carry out such an appalling crime.

The horrifying warning, given to former lover Sandra Gates in the 1980s, was ruled inadmissible during lengthy legal argument before the trial began.