Three-in-a-bed killer jailed

A jury took 70 minutes to convict Taylor

A bar worker who murdered a woman with whom he had a three-in-a-bed sex romp has been jailed for life.

Gavin Taylor, 29, killed Herjit Kaur Thethy after she fell in love with his girlfriend Natalie Clayton-Robson, 20, following the drunken romp.

For ten months he stalked and harassed the two women who had moved in together.

You said on the tape that we heard that you would 'do time' for Herjit, so you shall.

Mr Justice Keith

A jury at Birmingham Crown Court unanimously convicted Taylor, formerly of Beale Close, Birmingham.

Miss Thethy's body, which the court heard was dumped in a skip, has never been found.

Sentencing him on Tuesday, Mr Justice Keith said: "No one will ever know for sure how Herjit Thethy died or what you did to her but by their verdict, the jury have made it clear that she died at your hands in circumstances amounting to murder."

The judge referred to to a tape recording made by the victim without Taylor's knowledge.

"You said on the tape that we heard that you would 'do time' for Herjit, and so you shall.

"The law provides only one penalty for the crime of murder, that is life imprisonment."

Racially abused

Taylor denied killing the the 22-year-old Birmingham City Council worker who disappeared on November 18 last year.

Melbourne Inman, QC, prosecuting, had earlier said Miss Thethy was stalked, attacked, racially abused and eventually killed by Taylor.

He said Taylor and Miss Clayton-Robson met Miss Thethy in a pub in Birmimingham where Taylor suggested a 'three-in-a-bed' session.

"It is quite clear that Herjit was interested not in him, but in Nat and it soon became apparent to Nat that she far preferred to be with Herjit than with Gavin Taylor.

"Within a matter of days of the three-in-a-bed sex session it was quite clear that Herjit and Nat had effectively fallen in love and Nat decided in a matter of days that she wanted to move."

After Miss Thethy's disappearance, Taylor lied to police, claiming he had seen her while shopping in Birmingham City Centre.

He was charged with murder after a girlfriend who helped him dispose of the body contacted police.