The taxi driver Chris Halliwell has been given a full life term for the sexually motivated murder of Becky Godden, nearly four years after being jailed for killing Sian O’Callaghan.
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Retired High Court judge Sir John Griffith Williams branded the father-of-three a liar and told him he faced either a whole life order or a “significant” minimum term of imprisonment.
He added: ‘Your account of the circumstances in which she met her death bears all the hallmarks of a contrived explanation created to avoid conviction in the hope that the minimum term you are presently serving will not be increased. I have no doubt that you are a self-centered and domineering individual who wants his own way. You are both calculating and devious’.
“I will now seek to review outstanding cases, I will appeal to Christopher Halliwell again to tell the truth for once in your life and come and speak to me”.
When the judge finished he sentencing remarks, he smugly said “thank you” before being taken away.
Halliwell also admitted to the killing of Sian O’Callaghan, 22, whom he abducted in his taxi as she made her way home after a night out in Swindon in March 2011.
He led police to where he had left O’Callaghan’s body, and to where he had buried Godden’s remains eight years before.
On Monday a jury at Bristol crown court took less than three hours to find him guilty of the murder of sex worker Godden.
Over the years, Halliwell returned to the shallow grave he had buried her in at Oxo Bottom field in Eastleach, Gloucestershire. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. They also said that they received new information from concerned citizens since he was convicted.
But because senior investigating officer, Steve Fulcher, did not follow the rules over how suspects should be treated, Halliwell initially escaped justice.
When he was arrested for Becky Godden’s murder in 2015, Halliwell told Supt Memory he would accept responsibility for Miss Godden’s murder so long as police did not ask questions about any other offences he may have committed.
Other evidence that was not allowed in the trial related to searches carried out on Halliwell’s computer which suggested an interest in murder, violent sex and rape.
Mr Fulcher now works as a consultant in Somalia but is writing a book giving his side of the story of the investigation into Halliwell, which is due out next year.
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Police said they are certain Halliwell could have claimed more victims. “Normal people don’t go around killing each other”.
