Teacher strangled, set alight and dumped in wood

MURDER squad detectives are hunting a killer who strangled a schoolteacher and left her body burning in woods.

British Music teacher Jane Longhurst, described as a “devoted daughter and sister” who taught special needs children, had been murdered and her body set alight in countryside near Pulborough, West Sussex on Saturday evening.

Ms Longhurst, 31, vanished from the Brighton home she shared with her long-term partner Malcolm Sentance, 34, on March 14.