Murder accused ‘fantasised about killing prostitutes’
PROBATION OFFICER GIVES EVIDENCE AT TRIAL
GARY Allen told a probation officer he fantasised about hurting and killing sex workers during a chilling meeting.
Allen, 47, is currently standing trial accused of the murders of Samantha Class in 1997 in Hull and Alena Grlakova in 2018.
Samantha’s body was found on the banks of the Humber, near North Ferriby, in 1997. She had been beaten, strangled and run over.
Allen was later arrested stood trial for her murder, but was found not guilty.
Just a month later, in Plymouth, where he was living, he attacked two sex workers.
After he was convicted, Allen was seen by two probation workers, to whom he made a series of worrying comments.
Allen was seen by probation officer, Darren Fisher, in two meetings on December 17 and 18, 2003.
During the interviews, Mr Fisher says Allen claimed he fantasised about harming sex workers.
As he gave evidence from the witness box at Sheffield Crown Court yesterday, Mr Fisher said Allen told him he had these fantasies “on a weekly basis”.
He said: “He said he fantasised about restraining a woman he fantasised was a prostitute and says to her ‘I’m going to kill you, and hurt you. No one is ever going to see you.’
“He fantasised about repeatedly beating the victim with a bat. [That his victims were prostitutes] was a persistent theme in his fantasies.
“He told me that he had for many years had prostitutes in his abusive fantasies and when he came across them he immediately developed a fantasy of ‘what he’d do to them.’”
The comments came soon after another probation worker and
claims Allen described sex workers as “scum” and “the lowest of the low” to her. Rosemary Parks says she saw Allen in a series of meetings in October 2002. She says admitted to her that he planned and committed the attacks on the sex workers in Plymouth. She said that he targets sex workers as “they go with anybody”.
Mr Fisher was cross-examined by Katherine Goddard who asked whether Mr Fisher had suggested the fantasies to Allen based on material he may have had from his interviews with Ms Parks.
She said: “I have to suggest to you that during your meetings with him you made it clear to him that if he didn’t co-operate with your meetings than he would likely be returned to prison for breaching his licence.”
Mr Fisher dismissed suggestion.
Ms Goddard then said: “You have told the jury that in discussion with him he told you some specific things and he said that the
in his fantasies he restrained a woman who was naked and he fantasised she was a prostitute and that he said he was going to kill and hurt them and that no one was going to see them again.
“What I suggest to you is that you were making these suggestions to him and he was simply going along with them.”
Mr Fisher said: “My questions to him were based on material that I had and the offences he had committed as a man who had expressed violence.”
The officer said the things that were discussed had been disclosed to him by Allen.
The court heard that Allen told Mr Fisher he had committed the offences in Plymouth “because he wanted to”.
Mr Fisher said these were the words that “came out of his mouth”.
He added: “The reason this is important is because sometimes people say their offending is down to alcohol or other people’s actions.
“This is a man who said ‘This is my choice.’ The person is saying they have a responsibility for this offence.”
The trial continues.