Evil Reynolds has taken our life too

Sexual deviant Jamie Reynolds, 23, received a whole life tariff after luring the Telford 17-year-old to his home and tricking her into posing for photographs in a noose before hanging her to fulfil his macabre fantasy.

He harboured a morbid fascination for extreme violent pornography that showed young women being hanged or strangled, Stafford Crown Court heard.

Today it was revealed that a serious case review would be carried out to investigate why Reynolds had never faced criminal charges before the murder despite attempting to strangle a girl when he was a teenager.

Judge Justice Wilkie told Reynolds that he had the potential to be a serial killer. He said:?"You will continue to pose a grave risk to women for the rest of your life."

Meticulously

The court was told Georgia's death had been meticulously planned and he had a reserve list of potential victims should the "top of his list" not turn up.

Police discovered 16,800 hardcore images and 72 videos on his computer along with more than 40 horror stories about girls he knew, including one entitled 'Georgia Williams in Surprise'.

"He executed a great deal of that script", said Mr David Crigman Prosecuting.

Speaking through tears, Georgia's father Stephen, a detective with West Mercia Police told the court: "We have been damned by evil to endure this sorrow and misery till the ends of our natural lives." Reynolds, of Avondale Road, Wellington sat with his head in his hands as the father of the girl he murdered in an act of self-gratification told of the lifetime of grief and torment he had wreaked upon him, his wife Lynnette and their daughter Scarlett.

"Not only Georgia's life was taken but the life of her family was taken too," said Mr Williams. "Yes we still exist but that is all it is – an existence."

Speaking outside court after the whole-life sentence, he added: "This is the best justice can hand down at this time and once again we are grateful to the judiciary and all its components. There is no sentence we can ever say that we are satisfied with because it will never bring Georgia back.

"She's dead, she's gone physically, she lives in our hearts. The one thing that will always actually get to us and cause us grief is the fact that, even though Jamie Reynolds is serving a full life sentence, he still has life to hang onto.

"He can still have contact with his parents, they can visit exchange telephone calls, send cards to each other, touch, hold each other, see smiles, we will never ever see that again from Georgia and that breaks my heart every day."

He said one of the worst things to face was that Georgia was dumped naked in woods off the Nant-y-Grath Pass, near Wrexham, and left for four days. He said the final image of his daughter would haunt him for the rest of his life. But Mr Williams said the family had found comfort in the support of people in Telford, together with the setting up of a charitable trust in her name.

He added: "I am grateful to everyone in the Telford & Wrekin area who have stood and supported us."