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Three Convicted of Petrol Murder

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Three people who tied up a student, doused him in petrol and set him on fire have been convicted of his murder.

Simon Everitt's body was found near his home town of Great Yarmouth three weeks after he vanished in June 2008.

Jimi-Lee Stewart, 25, Maria Chandler, 40, both of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Jonathan Clarke, 20, from Telford in Shropshire had pleaded not guilty.

The trial at Norwich Crown Court heard the victim had been beaten and had petrol poured down his throat.

Sentencing will take place on 26 June.

The verdicts were returned after the judge said he would accept a majority verdict.

Clarke, of Elizabeth Way, Telford, was 19 at the time he murdered the student.

Simon did nothing wrong apart from love the wrong girl
Everitt family statement

His sister Christina told jurors he said he had tricked Mr Everitt into going with him to the scene of the attack.

During the trial jurors were played a scene from the British horror film Severance in which a character was shown tied to a tree.

In the movie a man is shown throwing petrol over and setting light to his victim.

Prosecutors claimed the student, who was originally from Newcastle, suffered a fate inspired by that scene.

The motive for the killing was said to be the victim's relationship with 19-year-old Fiona Statham.

'Assaulted and kidnapped'

Both Clarke and Stewart, of Nelson Road in Great Yarmouth, had been involved with Ms Statham.

Meanwhile Chandler, of Lancaster Road, was accused of being involved because she disliked the way Mr Everitt treated his girlfriend.

Simon Everitt
Simon Everitt's body was found three weeks after he went missing

The three defendants assaulted and kidnapped the engineering student, driving him to woodland in Mautby, Norfolk.

He was then "interrogated" by Stewart who believed his victim had slept with Ms Statham.

Stewart said he poured petrol all over the 17-year-old including down his throat, but told the court he was "shocked" when Clarke lit a match and set fire to their captive.

Hours later, he said, the three returned to Mautby where the body was buried in a ditch.

Ms Statham had reported the murder victim missing and his body was found on 28 June, 2008.

It took investigators a week to identify the remains.

Simon's father Vince was too ill to attend court, but his step-mother Susan Everitt was there to hear the verdicts.

A family statement said: "Simon did nothing wrong apart from love the wrong girl."

Norfolk Police said they were pleased with the verdict.

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Simon Everitt's body was found three weeks after he went missing.

This happend in my town. How scary.

Them three are evil vile scum! They guy just fell in love with the wrong girl!
Them three need to be locked away for life! Not 15 years, not 25 years.. Life!

Evil chavs wanting real life kicks from watching horror films, thick vile scum!

omg that sounds so awful!!!!

theres too many human rights in this country!!!

lock them up and throw away the key!!

I was in Great Yarmouth in June 2008.. :O

anyone else agree that life should mean life, not 10 years or 15 years!

yep it should mean LIFE!!!!!

and no special treatment for anyone to come out early!

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Originally posted by JD.
anyone else agree that life should mean life, not 10 years or 15 years!

Everyone else agrees with that JD.. except the ones who get to decide it seems..

To set someone on fire with petrol.
Its just waaaay to horrible.

I mean obviously they wanted to but why the harsh mannor, i know its not a good thing but some people get stabbed and can die in seconds, this guy would have been screaming in agony.

Thats Disgusting.

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Originally posted by lili
I was in Great Yarmouth in June 2008.. :O

i feel sorry for ya. just imagine how i feel. i have to live here.

Evil *****s, I agree with JD., life should mean life, especially for these three.

this is awful, i agree with ben, HORRIBLE way to die

and did arista write this article?

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Originally posted by hannah.

did arista write this article?

Nope. its from BBC website

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Originally posted by Sod_James

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Originally posted by lili
I was in Great Yarmouth in June 2008.. :O

i feel sorry for you. just imagine how i feel. i have to live here.

Aww.. it wasn't that bad.. :spin:

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Originally posted by lili

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Originally posted by Sod_James

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Originally posted by lili
I was in Great Yarmouth in June 2008.. :O

i feel sorry for you. just imagine how i feel. i have to live here.

Aww.. it wasn't that bad.. :spin:

yeh sure its ok if your just visiting for a bit. but it sucks to live here. sooooooo boring.