{"id":496609,"date":"2026-03-26T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496609\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:30:10","slug":"coventry-killer-who-buried-womans-body-in-woods-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496609\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry killer who buried woman&#8217;s body in woods jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coulson was last seen near a church meeting she had attended on Raglan Street, Coventry, on 21 May, where she had appeared to be well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Durnion is believed to have met by chance his victim, who was a sex worker, shortly after she left the support group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told police he had asked her to buy drugs for him and there was no sexual contact between them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Investigators said she went with Durnion to his flat, near the city centre, just after 23:20 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later that night, police officers were called by Durnion&#8217;s neighbours, who reported hearing a woman &#8220;screaming in fear&#8221; inside his flat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When officers responded, Durnion would not let them in and told them he was having a mental health crisis, pretending his father had cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he had killed Coulson just minutes earlier, and hidden her body underneath a mattress and duvet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coulson was last seen near a church meeting she had attended on Raglan Street, Coventry, on 21 May,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-496609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}