A sick and twisted fantasist violently assaulted and strangled a young teacher he met on the Plenty of Fish dating site before having sex with her dead body.
Carl Langdell met Katie Locke on the dating app Plenty of Fish.
Carl Langdell met Katie Locke on the dating app Plenty of Fish.
When they met up, he took her back to the four star Theobalds Park Hotel in Hertfordshire where he violently attacked and killed her.
He dumped her body in a bush near a skip in the 55-acres grounds after strangling her to death.
He then took photos of the 23-year-old's dead body, and sexually assaulted her.
Only nine months earlier Langdell had told a community psychiatric nurse that he wanted to cut a girl's throat.He also admitted that he wanted to see her naked and have sex with her when she was dead.
