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When Kirsty Wilkinson found the perfect dress for her wedding after a whirlwind romance, she bought a pink suit carrier to protect it ahead of her big day in February 2008. Just over a year later, that pink carrier made a shocking reappearance in a gruesome discovery that sparked a hunt for a vicious murderer. Now, the story of how that murderer was brought to justice has been revealed in a new documentary.
On the morning of 6 April 2009, a lorry driver pulled off the M4 and parked in an underpass near Porthcawl, south Wales, and spotted a suitcase in an embankment. Thinking the suitcase might have fallen off a roof rack from a car crossing the bridge above, the driver retrieved it and began to open it, only to see a hand and some blonde, bloodstained hair.
Twenty miles down the road in Swansea, senior investigation officer Dorian Lloyd had been called in to help on a missing person’s case a few days previously. Kirsty Grabham, 24, nee Wilkinson, had been reported missing by her husband Paul a week earlier on 30 March, last seen by friends after a night out the previous Friday. Police did a cursory check of her home after his report but found nothing untoward. However, when officers realised the body by the M4 was that of a young woman, Lloyd was called to the scene.
He recalls: “It was horrific. We discovered two black bags, bin liners, inside the suitcase. One had been placed over the body’s head and the other over her feet and she’d also been wrapped in a pink suit carrier.” The investigation team suspected the body was Kirsty but weren’t certain.
Penny Roberts, former chief reporter at BBC Wales who covered the case at the time, said: “A woman of the same description as Kirsty had gone missing around the same town. It seems so incredible.” The fact the body had been found 20 miles from Kirsty’s home also added doubts, as Lloyd said it was “very rare for a body to be moved that distance.”
With evidence pointing towards Kirsty as the victim, her mum Cathy Broomfield was given the awful task of trying to identify her youngest daughter’s body. “All her features had changed dramatically. It was only her eyebrows that I was able to recognise, the shape of them. I couldn’t even cry, I was in so much shock.”
Lloyd said the fact Kirsty’s body was wrapped in the pink carrier she bought to preserve her wedding dress was a “particularly agonising revelation.” When police told Grabham his wife was the body in the suitcase, his reaction – answering no comment to any questions and showing no emotion at all to the shocking news – raised suspicions.
But officers needed a lot more than suspicion, and this is where the findings of the pathology team proved crucial in finding Kirsty’s killer. The post-mortem examination showed the true extent of the violence inflicted upon Kirsty before her death. Dr Richard Shepherd, former Home Office forensic pathologist, said the extent and distribution of her injuries showed a “violent, vicious and prolonged attack.” Kirsty had fingerprint bruising around her throat and a bone behind her tongue had been fractured, showing the extent o…
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