A heartbroken daughter has revealed she wants to visit a double killer in prison to make a desperate appeal for him to reveal where he hid her mother’s body.
Savannah Holm said she can’t grieve properly until she is able to lay her “one in a million” mother Fiona Holm to rest after she was murdered by abusive handyman Carl Cooper.
Mystery remains over how the slight 66-year-old disposed of Fiona’s body without detection after she was killed in his rented garden flat in a Victorian terrace on a leafy residential street in Catford, southeast London, in June last year.
By the time police searched the property the following month he had carried out a “wholesale redecoration” of his living room, cutting down the net curtains, stripping the wallpaper and setting a series of fires in the garden as he covered his tracks.
But forensic analysis identified Fiona’s blood in multiple locations, including the walls, a door and a wifi router.
Last month, Cooper was jailed for life with a minimum of 35 years for murdering Fiona, 48, and a previous partner Naomi Hunte, 41, the year before. Prosecutor Joel Smith KC told the jury: “Ms Holm was killed in the flat. She bled in the flat.”
Savannah, 27, the eldest of Fiona’s four children, said her mother’s body not being found “doesn’t make sense” as she revealed she fears Cooper may have dumped it in part of a sectional sofa he had taken to the tip during the clean-up.
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