Lawyer killed by criminal lover who she met after her life spiralled out of control and into drugs
Alison Farr-Davies had overcome her addiction but suffered a relapse when she met Dean Jones
A DRUG addict who killed his solicitor girlfriend during a violent attack has been jailed for more than 13 years.
After a sustained assault, Dean Jones, 38, left Alison Farr-Davies to die and did not get her medical help for several hours, Swansea Crown Court heard.
Today he was jailed for 13-and-a-half years after earlier admitting her manslaughter.
Jones must also serve an additional four years on licence.
Alison, 42, who was also addicted to Class A drugs, was found dead at the flat they shared in Swansea, south Wales, on September 13 last year.
Home Office pathologist Dr Richard Jones said the probable cause of death was blunt head and chest injury.
Prosecuting Christopher Quinlan QC said: "The defendant accepts he assaulted Miss Farr-Davies and accepts he caused injuries connected to her death and accepts it was unlawful and is therefore guilty of homicide, that is manslaughter."
Swansea Crown Court also heard Alison had multiple fractures to her ribs and left arm, a bowel injury and bite marks.
Mr Quinlan said: "Dental impressions were taken from this defendant and they matched.
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"There was no evidence she had taken drugs shortly before her death."
Neighbours had witnessed her looking distressed in the days leading up to her death and one passerby said they saw a male "dragging a person by her hair."
On the evening before Alison was found dead a neighbour heard a noise that "sounded as though someone had fallen down the stairs."
When she looked through the letterbox she saw Alison sitting at the bottom of the stairs with a "gaping wound" on her forehead.
Mr Quinlan said Jones appeared and told the neighbour that there "was nothing wrong" and promised to call an ambulance.
An ambulance was not called until the following day, by which time she was dead.
On September 13, 2016, Jones ran into the road wearing just boxer shorts and shouted for help - despite knowing Alison was already dead.
A post-mortem examination concluded it was "difficult to envisage how injuries could have been caused by falling downstairs" and she survived for some hours after the fatal attack.
Privately educated Alison came from a family of lawyers and had a promising career ahead of her after qualifying as a solicitor in 2001.
She had overcome her drug addiction but suffered a relapse in 2015 and met Jones when she was sleeping rough in Swansea.
In a victim impact statement, Alison's sister Louise Staples, said: "I still have not told my daughters their auntie has died. How can you tell them what happened to her?
"I have never felt pain like this before.
"From the moment I get up I can't wait for it to be night again, so I can be alone in the dark."
Judge Keith Thomas called it a "wholly unprovoked and senseless" attack.
He said: "No sentence I could pass could bring Miss Farr-Davies back, or cure the anguish of her family."
On Tuesday Jones admitted manslaughter at the last minute as his trial was due to start, having previously denied murder.
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