A man has been found guilty of killing a mother of two whose body was found in a shallow grave in woodland near Coventry.
Reanne Coulson was heard screaming and crying for help five weeks before she was discovered near a bridleway, Warwick Crown Court heard.
Mohammed Durnion, 42, did not murder her, jurors concluded. But they found him guilty of manslaughter.
Durnion had claimed Ms Coulson died from a drugs overdose after an argument on 21 May last year.
But prosecutors told the court he strangled the 33-year-old in a deliberate attack and feigned a mental health crisis when police arrived at his flat in Paynes Lane, Coventry, after a 999 call.
Officers searched the property using a torch from a mobile phone but didn’t find Ms Coulson’s body – which is believed to have been hidden under a mattress.
Durnion moved Ms Coulson after police left and her body was found in Binley Woods more than five weeks later. It had been partially set alight with petrol.
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The killer later led police to the burial site.
Adam Moore, 39, Durnion’s friend, was also found guilty of assisting an offender by helping hide the corpse in the woods.
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