Moment killer calmly leaves home where he strangled son’s partner to death before heading to bakery to buy custard slice
Date: 2025-02-04
THIS is the moment a dad calmly fled a home where he strangled his son’s girlfriend to death before heading to a bakery to buy a custard slice.
Sophie Evans, 30, was discovered face down wearing only a bath towel following the horror in Llanelli, Wales.
CPSFootage shows Sophie Evans returning home before she was murdered[/caption]
CPSRichard Jones then showed up pretending to be carrying out work on the house[/caption]
CPSHe was captured calmly leaving 44 minutes later[/caption]
Sophie had been strangled to deathJones has been found guilty of murder
Chilling CCTV released by prosecutors shows the mum-of-two returning home from the school run.
Her partner’s dad Richard Jones then calls round under the guise of carrying out some work for Sophie.
Just 44 minutes later, the killer is seen on doorbell footage calmly leaving as Sophie lay dead inside.
The 50-year-old was then captured on CCTV buying a tuna roll and custard slice from a local bakery.
Jones has now been found guilty of murdering Sophie following a harrowing trial.
Swansea Crown Court heard Jones admitted killing Sophie in a phone conversation with his ex-partner Tracey Thompson.
He spent eight minutes on the phone with her before messaging: “Don’t say a word please”.
A post-mortem found Sophie suffered multiple injuries – including defensive wounds – after she was physically attacked and assaulted.
The mum-of-two’s cause of death was given as compression to the neck.
When Jones was arrested, police found a notepad that had a messaged scrawled on it in his car.
It read: “I got scammed and rinsed by my own son so I dealt with it myself. Had no other choice.”
Jones told officers he was being taken advantage of financially and had “lost his temper” before the killing.
The court heard Sophie was in a relationship with Jones’ son Jamie Davies at the time of her death.
She had moved into Jamie’s home in April 2023 and was paying the mortgage while he was remanded at HMP Swansea facing charges of supplying drugs and money laundering.
The dad felt scammed by his son and his partner as he was “duped” into signing a document stating that Sophie was a tenant and Jones was the landlord.
Prosecutor Michael Jones KC said this information was false and amounted to fraud.
Days before Sophie’s death, Jones made internet searches including: “Is paternity fraud a crime in the UK?”
He also looked up “I was duped into signing a mortgage, is there a way out of it?” and “Where are my deed titles held and do I need them?”
Jones pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murder.