CHESTER - A jobless gardener turned his sex fantasy to reality as he raped and murdered a seven year old girl with a depth of depravity that defied belief a Crown Court was told yesterday.
Howard Hughes (31) of Colwyn Bay, North Wales, snatched Sophie Hook on July 30th last year from a tent in her uncle's back garden. He raped her, strangled her and threw her body into the sea, Chester Crown Court heard. He later confessed to his father: "I did it, Dad, I must tell somebody."