Outrage as Man Strangles Pregnant Ex-Girlfriend to Death (Photo)

 

  

24 year old Matthew Smith strangled his pregnant ex girlfriend and mother of his 2 children, Isobel 'Becky' Parker, 23, in the bathroom of her home in Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, after discovering his tax credits had been stopped because he thought she reported him to the taxman.

 

After he killed her with cable ties wound tightly around her neck, he sent a text message to her younger sister, which read: "By the time you get there it will be too late."

 

When Sarah asked him where he was, he replied: "We all know it is too late for that."

 

Out of fear for Becky's safety, her distraught sister ran to her home only to find Becky strangled to death in the tub. Police were called and Smith was arrested on the suspicion of murder. Smith admitted to killing Becky, who was six months' pregnant with another man's baby. But said he was out of his mind when he did it.

 

During the trial, the jury heard how Becky, a former restaurant worker, had been in a relationship with Smith for at least six years but had left him after she met someone else.

 

Smith took the break very badly but got around to accepting that Becky had moved on. She got pregnant almost immediately after meeting the man last year.

 

Smith was sentenced to life in prison but he showed no emotion when they handed the sentence to him.