A man who killed his friend and kept her body in a freezer for several days before burning her remains in a layby has been found guilty of murder. Clive O’Connor, 58, used a blunt object to launch the brutal attack on Jomaa Jerarre, 52, between August 3 and 4, 2021.
A court heard he then stored her body in a freezer he had bought especially for the macabre task at his home in Bilston, Wolverhampton. The charred remains of Jomaa were found by police dumped by the roadside in Perton, Staffordshire, just before 2.30am on August 9, 2021.
Her corpse was so badly burned it took forensic officers days to identify her by her DNA and it was established an accelerant had been used to start the blaze. Detectives identified O’Connor as one of the last people to see Jomaa alive and he was arrested on August 13, 2021, on suspicion of murder.
