A thug who "savagely" battered his girlfriend to death before pretending to her family she had been killed in a hit-and-run has been jailed for life. Alan Edney, 31, murdered Kerry Owen, 35, before dumping her body in a ditch along a remote country lane covered in grass cuttings.
A court heard Kerry was discovered by a dog walker along Wast Hills Lane in Hopwood, Worcestershire, on May 27 last year. The man’s dog discovered a pool of blood before Kerry’s body was found nearby in the undergrowth.
In the meantime, Edney had spun a web of elaborate lies to cover his tracks, telling her family members Kerry had been killed in a hit-and-run. He even said he'd accompanied her body to hospital and claimed he had been taken to a police station to give a statement about the collision.
