Violent porn 'fuels the fantasies' of muderers and rapists, say parents of Georgia Williams
Violent pornography continues to "fuel the fantasies" of murderers and rapists, the parents of murdered teenager Georgia Williams said today.
They have spoken out after Shrewsbury rapist Matthew Gill was the latest offender to strike after watching illegal extreme pornography online.
He was handed a discretionary life sentence at Shrewsbury Crown Court last month after he grabbed a 14-year-old as she walked to school and dragged her into the bushes before she was stabbed with a knife, gagged, bound and brutally raped.
Gill, of Reedham Road, in Herongate, Shrewsbury, had selected his young victim in the town at random having watched a number of violent rape pornography films on his laptop the previous night.
Police chiefs, Georgia's parents Steve and Lynnette Williams and campaigners today warned of the dangers of online violent pornography and called for action.
The Lord Chief Justice told MPs that he was in no doubt that Georgia's killer Jamie Reynolds' actions had been made worse by what he watched online.
Reynolds, then 23, admitted strangling 17-year-old Georgia at his home in Avondale Road, Wellington two years ago.
In a grim parallel, paedophile Mark Bridger looked at images of child abuse in the hours before he murdered five-year-old April Jones, from Machynlleth in 2012.
Georgia's mother Lynnette Williams said: "It does affect people's attitude to women and girls because this pornography projects them as something to use for their own pleasure with no regard to it being a human being. The Government need to do something about it, they need to block it off the internet.
"It is fuelling crimes for rape and murder in some cases and that is a fact."
"In the case of Jamie Reynolds, the evidence was clear that violent pornography fuelled his desires from a very early age. He'd been watching it from the age of 14. Since that young age he had been watching women being hanged and strangled.
"To be honest families need to be more vigilant about anyone who they suspect of accessing such material. If they can recognise it early on, preventative measures could be taken to help these people, to stop them committing serious crimes and preventing them spending a lifetime in prison.
"For Reynolds it was more important to him to get his sexual gratification than Georgia's life. He had fuelled his desires."
