Controlling husband posts his estranged wife’s pictures on pornhub then burns her to death in her bedroom

A controlling husband, Damion Simmons, 45, who did not need his estranged wife, Denise Keane-Simmons, 36,  to maintain or see associates, poured litres of petrol over her earlier than setting her on hearth at her house in Brent, north-west London, on April 16, 2020. The sufferer was discovered on her bed room ground in Alric Avenue with extensive burns and smoke inhalation, and was pronounced useless in hospital, police have revealed.

Police say they attended the property 40 minutes earlier than he carried out the ‘calculated’ killing because the sufferer had reported threatening messages from her estranged husband that stated he had put footage of her on PornHub.

She additionally reported discovering he had hidden a digicam in a lightbulb in her bed room.

In a press release to law enforcement officials she known as over on the night time of her homicide, Mrs Keane-Simmons, who labored as a educating assistant, stated: ‘I really feel anxious about leaving my home as his behaviour is so unpredictable and simply need to stay my life with out that fear of Damion.’

However lower than an hour after the police left, Simmons burnt down the home.

The couple had met in Trinidad the place they married in February 2019, and Simmons then relocated to the UK to maneuver in along with his wife.

However their relationship turned strained as a result of he needed Mrs Keane-Simmons to vary her behaviour and cease seeing associates. Hours earlier than the homicide, the person posted an intimate image of her on Instagram alongside together with her maiden title, job and the college the place she labored.

In a WhatsApp voice message he then despatched to his ex-wife, he stated: ‘I hope you endure and die identical to how I endure and die earlier than I’m going. I actually hope you endure and die.’

On the identical night time of her dying, CCTV captured Simmons shopping for 5 and a half litres of gas from a close-by petrol station.

Additional CCTV footage confirmed him pouring petrol by the letterbox of the sufferer’s tackle and smashing a window to get inside, with the fireplace igniting 30 seconds later.

Simmons, was convicted of homicide and arson with intent to hazard life on the Previous Bailey on Wednesday, September 1.

He later admitted making a collection of web searches, together with Crown Prosecution Service steerage on defences in regulation for homicide and ‘finest method to make use of a knife and kill somebody’, however stated he had no intention of doing that.

He stated all these regardless of jurors being instructed at the start of the trial that he had admitted manslaughter.

He had beforehand pleaded responsible to disclosing non-public and sexual images with intent to trigger misery. Detective chief inspector Neil John stated after the decision that the defendant’s behaviour ‘epitomises excessive home violence’.

‘Denise was clearly cherished by all, and this tragic incident has affected many individuals far and extensive.

‘The actions of Damion Simmons that night time had been calculated, and the jury have come to the conclusion that he set out that night time to not kill himself, as he claimed, however to kill Denise.

‘His actions had been each egocentric and reckless. He cruelly took away Denise’s future and will have simply induced critical hurt to the opposite lady contained in the property and adjoining households.’