Man guilty of murdering daughter, Chanelle Sasha Jones

Chanelle Sasha Jones was found with 22 injuries in Gary Fisher's car Mother's sentence call for killer

A 48-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering his teenage daughter.

Gary Fisher, from Solihull, West Midlands, had denied the murder of Chanelle Sasha Jones, 17, in a car park in Ceredigion on 2 August last year.

Chanelle Sasha suffered 22 injuries, including one or possibly two stab wounds to her heart.

Fisher, who will be sentenced at Swansea Crown Court at a later date, had chosen not to give evidence in his defence.

The judge, Mr Justice Lloyd Jones, had previously warned him the jury may "draw inferences" from his decision not to give evidence.

The jury took just one hour on Wednesday to convict him of murder.

Police said Fisher drove Chanelle Sasha's body around for about 10 hours

Speaking to the defendant, the judge said: "By law there is only one sentence for murder and in due course you will be sentenced to imprisonment for life."

He said that, at a future sentencing hearing, he would set the minimum jail term Fisher will have to serve before being eligible for parole.

The court had been told Fisher, who had admitted manslaughter but claimed it was not murder, stabbed his daughter to death as she sat in the passenger seat of his Ford Fiesta in a Cardigan pub car park.

Fisher had driven around with his daughter's body for several hours

After stabbing his daughter, Fisher covered her body with a sleeping bag and reclined her seat.

He then drove around for several hours with her body in the car before police used a stinger device to halt the vehicle.

Prosecutor Chris Clee QC previously said that when arrested, Fisher told police he killed his daughter because she had wanted to die after suffering a sex attack, and he planned to "end her suffering" in a suicide pact.

Mr Clee said Fisher told hospital staff he had killed her with a hunting knife.

"He said his daughter told him she wanted to die. He said he planned it for the last two and a half months," he said.

"He said, 'I felt she was suffering and I wanted to help her to die'."

The court heard Fisher later claimed to police that his daughter had been raped - and she "couldn't live with the thought of that", but police said no complaint had been made to them.

Mr Clee said: "This wasn't in any way, shape or form a suicide pact. It is simply an attempt by him to avoid his responsibility for what he did."

Lock knife

He said Fisher had rung his sister to confess to killing Sasha, and told one of her cousins what had happened.

The jury was told Fisher had argued with his daughter earlier in the summer because she wanted to be with her boyfriend instead of her father.

He had also given his 15-year-old son a hunting knife and a lock knife to look after on a visit to see his three children.

Fisher and Chanelle Sasha's mother, Jayne Jones, met in the West Midlands in 1991, and had three children together before splitting up.

The family moved to Cardigan but Fisher returned to Birmingham after the relationship broke down.

He made contact with the children five years ago after befriending their grandmother, the jury was told.