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NIKITTA GRENDER CASE: Key stories

Nikitta Grender

USE these links below to follow our insight into the background of the Nikitta Grender case and coverage of the reaction to killer Carl Whant's terrible crime and his sentence.

NIKITTA CASE: Website use was problem for probe

MEDIA SCRUM: Police brief reporters at the scene

5:20pm Thursday 23rd February 2012

POLICE attended the scene of the fire at around 8am on February 5 after Miss Grender’s body was found.

NIKITTA CASE: Journey claims exposed by CCTV

CAUGHT: Whant’s car captured on CCTV on the night

4:40pm Thursday 23rd February 2012

The movements of killer Carl Whant were painstakingly pieced together by officers investigating the crime to contradict his version of the fatal night. AILSA CHALK reports.

NIKITTA CASE: Bloodstains could not be explained

VEHICLE: The car driven by Carl Whant

4:30pm Thursday 23rd February 2012

OFFICERS visited Whant at home on February 7, 2011, to seize the clothes he was wearing on the evening of February 4.

NIKITTA CASE: Ryan Mayes and killer Whant ‘so close’

NIGHT OUT: Ryan Mayes

4:20pm Thursday 23rd February 2012

WHANT and Mr Mayes were less like cousins and more like brothers, but that did not stop Whant murdering the love of Mr Mayes’ life and killing the baby girl he was preparing to welcome into the world.

NIKITTA CASE: Carl Whant's stubborn silence, and then tears

INTERVIEWS: Carl Whant with girlfriend Rachel Bird and her son

4:10pm Thursday 23rd February 2012

ON HIS arrest, Whant decided silence was the best way to try to get away with murder.

NIKITTA CASE: Prime suspect Carl Whant was a cocaine user who stole from family and owed hundreds

Carl whant arrives at court

4:00pm Thursday 23rd February 2012

The man who raped and murdered mum-to-be Nikitta Grender was a drug user whose habit led him into debt and crime. BEN FRAMPTON profiles fixated killer Carl Whant.

NIKITTA CASE: Heartache in tributes written by loved ones

TRIBUTE: Nikitta Grender’s uncle, Michael Brunnock

3:40pm Thursday 23rd February 2012

AT MISS Grender’s funeral her uncle, Michael Brunnock, read a tribute on behalf of her parents.

NIKITTA CASE: ‘Bridges built to assist inquiry’

KEY: Supt Dave Johnson

3:30pm Thursday 23rd February 2012

ONE of the major challenges faced by police investigating Miss Grender’s death was building bridges with the community.

NIKITTA CASE: Community shock at death

TRAGIC EVENT: Cllr Allan Morris

3:20pm Thursday 23rd February 2012

LLISWERRY councillor Allan Morris said the community came together after the murder. He said: “At the time it had a massive effect on the people of Lliswerry, insofar as people wouldn’t normally realise that the police were on their side. It united the community with a common purpose and a common aim.

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