Found Deceased UK - Samantha Eastwood, 28, Stoke-on-Trent, 27 July 2018 *Arrest*

[Alyce]

The text message exchange between GE and MS ( pretending to be SE )

Murderer pretended to be midwife in evil text exchange with her frantic sister

 

[Alyce]

Did the judge feel the google searches were not enough to prove premeditation? I guess she must have. I also expected a longer sentence.

Must be Elainera - and doesn't look like the Prosecution were able to prove their point re the tape having been used to make sure SE died, if she were not already dead from MSs actions.

 

[Legally Bland]

Here's a full transcript of Michael Stirling's custody interview

Police officer: Yesterday at around 9.05am yesterday morning specialist search trained officers went to that area where this disturbed earth had been seen.

Specialist search trained officers went there and at 11.05am they found a human body buried in a shallow ditch, in a shallow grave.

From that moment that area was cordoned off as a crime scene and that shallow grave was effectively opened up and a human body was buried within it. It’s been positively identified as Samantha Eastwood. What you going to tell me about that?

Stirling: No comment

Police officer: It’s no coincidence is it Michael that the area that these people have seen you and the deposition site of Samantha. It is no coincidence is it?

Stirling: No comment

Police officer: It’s no coincidence that her disappearance on July 27 and the subsequent finding of her by specialist trained police officer yesterday morning and seeing you in that location. It is no coincidence is it?

Stirling: No comment

Police officer: You may have made some very, very bad decisions over the last few days, Michael, but I encourage you to make the right decision this afternoon. Please explain to us and tell us what happened to Samantha.

Stirling: No comment

Police officer: This is a very very serious matter. She has family and loved ones that want answers to questions quite rightly. They deserve those answers about the final movements of their daughter, their sister. I can’t provide those answers. I need your help.

That’s what I’m asking you to do today. Make the right decision now and help explain what happened to her.

Stirling: No comment

Police officer: A post mortem is currently being conducted on Samantha. Are you going to be forensically linked to any of the items that we find?

Stirling: No comment

Police officer: We will in due course understand what the outcome of that post mortem is and we’d like to speak to you later about that later perhaps. But for now, this is very very key evidence in terms of what we’re investigating. We’re investing what initially was a missing person and we’re now investigating it as a murder. The murder of Samantha Eastwood.

You were at her house on Friday, witnesses have heard a female screaming. Through a process of investigation we have identified that property as being number two and that number is the address off Samantha Eastwood.

A matter of days later we found her buried in a shallow grave on Tickhill Lane. What have you done to Samantha?

Stirling: No comment

Police officer: Have you killed Samantha Eastwood?

Stirling: No comment

Police officer: If you haven’t tell me who has

Stirling: No comment

Watch Michael Stirling being quizzed a day after Samantha's body was found

 

[Alyce]

The Eastwood family are expected to make a statement outside Stafford Crown Court
Reporters and camera crews are now gathered outside the court building in the expectation that Samantha’s sister Gemma may give a statement.

 

[chimpface]

17 years?

Pathetic as usual from our justice(?) system.

Edit: Thanks for the updates Alyce.

 

[Alyce]

Full text of Gemma's statement - heartbreaking. And as if she didnt have enough to cope with, it seems the estranged father who has not been around since she was a baby, is now turning up wanting to know about SEs estate and the money !

Samantha Eastwood's grief-stricken sister in her own words

 

[ZaZara]

Full text of Gemma's statement - heartbreaking. And as if she didnt have enough to cope with, it seems the estranged father who has not been around since she was a baby, is now turning up wanting to know about SEs estate and the money !

Samantha Eastwood's grief-stricken sister in her own words

Heartbreaking indeed. That poor girl, and her mother too....

 

[Sarahlou]

17 years? Should have been at least double that.

 

[Kasmeer]

17 years for taking the life of someone who could easily have lived another 40-50 years plus. I really think our justice system could use a rethink on sentencing guidelines, it might've just about been ok 50 years ago when life expectancy was lower, but nowadays it seems pitiful. There are very rarely sentences which I feel actually are appropriate these days, but this one's particularly poor, I'd at least expected 20.

 

[Elainera]

Can the state appeal the sentence?

 

[jessie]

Can the state appeal the sentence?

I think a sentence considered inadequate can be reviewed. ?

 

[jessie]

Can the state appeal the sentence?

Ask for a Crown Court sentence to be reviewed
Ask for a Crown Court sentence to be reviewed
You can ask for someone’s Crown Court sentence to be reviewed if you think it’s too low.

The Attorney General’s Office can review very low sentences given by the Crown Court in England and Wales if they’re asked to.

Only certain types of case can be reviewed, including:

• murder
• rape
• robbery
• some child sex crimes and child cruelty
• some serious fraud
• some serious drug crimes
• some terror-related offences
• crimes committed because of the victim’s race or religion

Anyone can ask for a sentence to be reviewed - they don’t have to be involved in the case.

 

[Cherwell]

Thank you, Alyce - just in and catching up here.

 

[Cherwell]

Mr Peake describes struggling to eat and sleep, and feeling guilty. He adds that his relationship with his sister - Stirling’s wife - has been damaged. “It has torn our family apart,” he said.

I'm especially sad to read the BIB.

 

[Alyce]

17 years for taking the life of someone who could easily have lived another 40-50 years plus. I really think our justice system could use a rethink on sentencing guidelines, it might've just about been ok 50 years ago when life expectancy was lower, but nowadays it seems pitiful. There are very rarely sentences which I feel actually are appropriate these days, but this one's particularly poor, I'd at least expected 20.

I hoped for 25 plus - many of the recent cases I have followed have had low sentences, but this one I agree is particularly bad ...... I wonder how much he got taken off for the guilty plea - the max is 5 years, so perhaps his actual was 22 ? which even then is not enough to me

 

[Cherwell]

He's got away with more than 5 years IMO, because by pleading guilty and avoiding a trial he may have prevented closer scrutiny of some of the evidence.

 

[Tiny]

Thank you Alyce for the updates. A really sad case. Samantha’s sister’s victim impact statement was so sad. So unjust.

 

[Alyce]

He's got away with more than 5 years IMO, because by pleading guilty and avoiding a trial he may have prevented closer scrutiny of some of the evidence.

Yes, very good point.

 

[Alyce]

Thank you Alyce for the updates. A really sad case. Samantha’s sister’s victim impact statement was so sad. So unjust.

Harrowing - as always, it's the remaining family who have the real life sentence

 

[Armchair_Defective]

I think the point about the tape being used to cover her face is very likely true. As discussed months back, it was masking tape so not very good for stopping someone breathing or screaming. I think he did it because he's a coward and didn't want to be reminded of the murder he'd just carried out - entirely for his own benefit. Just like the relationship and hounding her to try and control her. He wanted everything his way and to punish her when she didn't play along - but he wanted to forget the reality of what he'd done because it suited him.

' As for his defense saying the murder 'was completely out of character''....I don't believe that at all. He must have had some anger issues or a cold, controlling nature to stalk her, want to kill her and then act normally afterwards.