Dad 'killed daughter to end her pain'

A father stabbed his teenage daughter to death to end her suffering after she was raped, the Swansea Crown Court in UK was told Monday.

According to the Birmingham Post, it was claimed that Gary Fisher, 48, planned to murder his daughter Chanelle Sasha Jones, 17, for months before carrying it out.

Fisher drove the girl to a secluded pub car park near her home Cardigan, west Wales on August 2 last year and reportedly killed her with a butcher’s knife as she sat in the passenger seat of his Ford Fiesta.

The court was told that Fisher drove around west Wales with her blood-soaked body in the car for more than seven hours before being stopped by police, the jury heard.

Fisher denies a single charge of murder.

Prosecuting officer Christopher Cleesaid that in the aftermath of the murder, Fisher repeatedly told people what he had done.

Fisher separated from his wife, Jane Jones, more than a decade before but had started visiting his three children in Wales.

The alleged murder of his daughter happened during a visit to the family, which had started a week before.

Police had been hunting Fisher since the early afternoon, when a woman heard him arguing with his daughter in the car park of the Angel Inn, in Cardigan.

The murder happened in the car park at around 2pm but Fisher was caught by police using a stinger device on his car at around 9.30pm.

Fisher drove on for some kilometres along the coast between Aberaeron and Aberystwyth before colliding with a camper van.

Police found the body of the girl in the car. Fisher, who also had injuries, was also taken to hospital.

Clee said that while in hospital Fisher had told a nurse that he had "stabbed her because she was in so much pain".

Once released from hospital, he was interviewed by a psychiatric specialist and a social worker.

"He gave them a graphic account of the killing of his daughter. He said at various stages that his daughter had told him that she wanted to die. He said that he had planned it for two-and-half months."

He allegedly said: "I felt that she was suffering and I wanted to help her die."

Fisher said he parked at the pub and walked around and opened the passenger-side door where his daughter was sitting.

"She was shocked to see the knife. She tried to get away and resist," he said.

Clee added that Fisher told how he stabbed her "many times" and said that, as she struggled, he had stabbed himself.

When Fisher was asked what his plans were now, he had replied: "To spend the rest of my life in prison."

He said he was frequently questioned about feelings of suicide himself but had repeatedly rejected such suggestions.

Once Fisher was transferred into custody he immediately told officers a similar story about his daughter’s death.

"He told the police that she had been raped and that she could not live with the thought of that," the prosecutor said.

However, Clee said the teenager had never made any such report to the police.

He acknowledged that she been admitted to hospital after taking drug overdoses in December 2006 and February 2009 but said that neither incident had been seen as a real attempt to kill herself.

Earlier the jury heard that, on a visit to Wales one month earlier, Fisher called his daughter a "slag" because she did not want to go out with him.

He had taken all three children camping during that visit, using amphetamines himself and offering them to his daughter and her teenage brother.

Clee also gave a detailed account of the post-mortem examination results on Chanelle Sasha. She suffered three major stab wounds to the chest and had injuries to her cheek, thigh and defence wounds.

He said death was due to puncture wounds to a major heart artery which had caused her to bleed to death.

The case, which is scheduled to run for at least two weeks, continues.


- Thymus Macauley.