Anthony Ayres (Jail Whole Life)

Anthony Ayres murdered his girlfriend Dawn Wisdom 30 in 1994 when she told him their relationship was over.

In 2016 he was convicted of the murder of Kelly Pearce 36.

Dawn Wisdom

He strangled her with his hands after she had asked him to leave when she found out that she was stealing from her.

After he left her lying on the floor of her home and took her jewellery to pawn as well as her TV and video.

After his conviction the jury heard that he had been convicted a week before of wounding a previous girlfriend 4 years earlier who he had half-strangled, stabbed and beaten at his flat on 8 August 1989 after she refused to have sex with him after being together for 10 days and that at the time of that attack he was on parole for another assault on another girlfriend who he had also partially strangled for which he was sentenced to 2 years on 26 May 1988 having been convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Another charge of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm to a fourth girlfriend  in east London on 24 December 1992 was ordered to lie on the court file.

He also had another conviction for wounding with intent after cutting a boys face with a razor at a youth club in 1984.

After the attack on his girlfriend on 8 August 1989 he fled to Southern Ireland and evaded arrest for 4 years.

Anthony Ayres and Dawn Wisdom had set up home together in East London but their relationship went sour within a few months after he started stealing from her and she asked him to leave. After, on 28 September he grabbed her from behind as she was getting ready for work and strangled her.

After she didnt turn up for work her brother and mother went to her flat where they found her dead.

Anthony Ayres was arrested 3 days later  outside West Ham underground station.

When he was arrested he said 'I was going to come in tomorrow. Is she dead? It just happened. I didn't mean to kill her. I really didn't. She was going to kick me out. I thought I was going to lose her. I know I strangled her but I didn't mean to. I sat there for hours afterwards.'

He later said 'She told me I was stealing from her. It was hard to take. She was looking for something in her handbag and she was talking to me. She said she never loved me. I grabbed her to get her attention. I was in a temper because of what was going on. She fell over backwards and I fell on top of her. She wasn't listening to me. I put my hand on her throat. I didn't mean to. I was just trying to restrain her. She was struggling, pushing onto my hand. She gurgled. I knew she was in trouble then. It was about 30 seconds. I didn't know she was in danger of losing her life. Afterwards I couldn't bear to look at her. I didn't know whether she was alive or dead. I covered her up.'

The judge described him as a serious danger to women.

In 2015 he was wanted in relation to the murder of his girlfriend Kelly Pearce 36.

Kelly Pearce

He stabbed her 40 times in the face and neck in the bathroom of one of her friends at Fairlop Avenue, Canvey.