A ‘highly-sexualised’ loner who bludgeoned police community support officer Julia James to death while she walked her dog has been convicted of murder today.
A jury took just 73 minutes to decide Callum Wheeler, also described as ‘angry, violent and strange’, had ambushed the 53-year-old mother of two in Ackholt Wood near her home in Snowdown, Kent, at around 2.30pm on April 27 last year.
The 22-year-old, who lived in Sunshine Corner Avenue, Aylesham, with his father John, and has no previous convictions, had accepted responsibility for killing Mrs James on day one of his trial last…