Nelly Myers was found dead at her home in Rotherfield on December 18 last year. Police cordoned off Court Meadow Close as a murder inquiry was launched. Now, after a trial at Hove Crown Court, 36-year-old Gatwick airport baggage handler Jayesh Gobar has been found guilty of her murder.
Jayesh Gobar has been jailed for life for the Rotherfield murder of Nelly Myers But the court also heard details about Nelly’s life, and how she had lived at the heart of the village for 29 years. In a tribute to her, her family said she had “incomparable generosity” and a “zest for life”.
A baggage handler has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years for the unimaginably savage murder of his British Airways host lover.
Jayesh Gobar, 36, was convicted by a jury at Hove Crown Court of the murder of 58-year-old Nelly Myers at her home in Rotherfield, near Crowborough, East Sussex, on December 17 last year.
Judge Christine Laing QC told the court that Gobar, from Crawley, West Sussex, attacked the mother-of-two after becoming enraged when she would not give him money to fund his drug habit.
She told Gobar: What is clear is that Nelly Myers would not give you any money and, in order to get it from her over the next one hour and a quarter, you subjected her to a prolonged and savage attack.
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KILLER LOVER
Baggage handler, 36, who beat British Airways hostess lover, 58, to death in rage is caged for 26 years
Ben Hill
Updated: 16 Dec 2020, 15:22
A BAGGAGE handler who beat his British Airways hostess lover to death in a rage has been jailed today for 26 years.
Jayesh Gobar, 36, was convicted of murder after Nelly Myers, 58, died in the hallway of her £500,000 home in Rotherfield, East Sussex, just before Christmas last year.
Nelly Myers, 58, was beaten to death by baggage handler Jayesh Gobar
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Gobar, 36, was jailed for at least 26 years
Mrs Myer s devastated son today said a completely unfillable void had been left by his mum s death, as Gobar was sentenced to a minimum of 26 years in prison for her murder.
A year earlier he had throttled her in her home and robbed her for money. Gobar was jailed and put under a restraining order not to contact her. But the court heard how their dalliance carried on after he was released from prison. That was until last December, when Ms Myers went to pick him up from work and took him to her home in Rotherfield where she had lived for 29 years.
The scene in Court Meadow Close, Rotherfield Witnesses heard sounds of a disturbance inside the property. Gobar was seen on CCTV fleeing the area and trying to get back to his Crawley home.