Man ‘killed teen daughter to end her pain over rape’

AN estranged father stabbed his teenage daughter to death to end her suffering after she was raped, a jury heard yesterday.

Gary Fisher, 48, of Solihull, West Midlands, planned to kill his daughter for months, Swansea Crown Court heard.

Fisher drove Chanelle Sasha Jones, 17, of Cardigan, west Wales, to a secluded pub car park near her home on August 2 last year. He then stabbed her with a butcher’s knife as she sat in the passenger seat of his Ford Fiesta. Fisher drove around west Wales with her blood-soaked body in the car for more than seven hours before being stopped by police, the jury heard.

Fisher denies a single charge of murder.

Christopher Clee, prosecuting, said that in the aftermath of the killing, Fisher repeatedly told people what he had done.

Fisher separated from his wife, Jane Jones, more than a decade before but had started visiting his three children in Wales.

His daughter’s death happened during a visit to the family, which had started a week before.

Police had been hunting Fisher since the early afternoon, when a woman heard him arguing with his daughter in the car park of the Angel Inn, Cardigan.

The killing happened in the car park at around 2pm but Fisher was caught by police using a stingerdevice on his car at around 9.30pm, Clee said.

Fisher drove on for some miles along the coast between Aberaeron and Aberystwyth before colliding with a camper van.

Police found the body of his daughter in the car’s passenger footwell and Fisher was taken to hospital with injuries.

Clee said that while in hospital he told a nurse that he had “stabbed her because she was in so much pain”.

Once released from hospital, he was interviewed by a psychiatric specialist and a social worker.

“He gave them a graphic account of the killing of his daughter. He said at various stages that his daughter had told him that she wanted to die.

“He said that he had planned it for two and a half months.”

When Fisher was asked what his plans were now, he had replied: “To spend the rest of my life in prison.”

The case, which is scheduled to run for at least two weeks, continues.