A British lifeguard crafted a meticulous 'murder kit' with which she killed the man she dated for sleeping with other women

A teenage girl serving as a lifeguard was sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison for meticulously planning the torture and murder of a man she was having a casual affair with whom she accused of having slept with other women.

Sophie George was “consumed with revenge” when she filled bags with bleach, duct tape, forensic clothing, garbage bags and lighter fuel before meeting Adam Yiosese near her home in Brighton, England, in October 2019.

The obsessed young woman, then 18, tried to get Adam to drive to Wild Park, a nature reserve where he planned to perpetrate his crime. On the way, Sophie pulled a large toothed knife from her companion, with which she cut off his hand while he defended himself.

Adam managed to get out of the van and called the emergency number before Sophie punched him and bit his finger to the bone.

Initially, police handcuffed Adam Yiosese before discovering Sophie George's torture and murder equipment in his bags.

When police later searched George's house, they found “chilling” written plans about how to kidnap and murder the man he was dating, as well as how to change his identity and start a new life.

These included plans to force him to walk to a grave she had dug, torturing him to reveal the names of other women he had slept with, and a request to change his name and apply for a new passport.

During the trial, the judge who heard the case said that the young woman posed a danger to anyone else he might know and did not hesitate to send her to prison.

“It seems, from everything I've read in this case, that you were obsessed and consumed with revenge, considering that the victim had been seeing other women,” said Judge Christine Henson of the Hove Crown Court.

“You did everything you could to plan your attack. This was a highly planned attack. It is clear that he knew what he was doing was wrong and his planning included evading responsibility and detection,” the judge added.

The togada expressed real concern that in the future these behaviors would be repeated with another casual partner, something relatively common in the lives of many people, so the young woman's response was extreme and completely abnormal.

“It's clear that you pose a risk to those you think have let you down. This was not a sudden and spontaneous reaction, but one that you thought about and planned for weeks before trying to carry it out,” he told the defendant.

The court heard that Yiosese was left with traumatic memories and difficulty trusting his friends after the experience, because he had trusted George and later discovered that she had been planning to kill him.

As she was sentenced, George, who wore two Dutch braids, a gray headband, a white shirt and a black cardigan, sobbed and wiped his eyes with scarves.

In the indictment, Jennifer Gray said that George and Yiosese met when she was 17 years old at Moulsecoomb Station, when he was studying at the University of Brighton.

At the time of the attack, he had graduated with a first-class degree and was working as a railway engineer in London.

The couple had exchanged messages that summer, but she had postponed it to convince him to go to Brighton for a couple of months; it later became clear that this was because she was busy planning to kill him.

He eventually suggested meeting on October 9 at 11:15 p.m., after he had finished work. She told him to pick her up from a place near her house.

Adam was confused when she got angry that he had brought his work van instead of his car. Later, the police discovered that she had been investigating how to lock the doors from the inside on the model of car he used to drive.

The young woman had Adam take her to an alleged friend's house, where she collected two bags full of his “murder and torture equipment”.

Then he told her he wanted to go to a park and had her drive in the direction of Wild Park, and when he said he wanted to go get food, she grabbed the wheel twice to change direction.

When they returned to Selsfield Drive, she pointed a knife at him and tried to stab him. Adam cut off his hand when he deflected the blow and fled the van.

A woman in an apartment overlooking the street saw Sophie attacking him and called 999, endeavoring to tell them that she was the woman who saw the man attack, and not the other way around.

When the police arrived, Adam had wounds on his face where she had hit him and bit his finger to the bone.

“The victim was very obedient and was obviously relieved that the police had arrived. When the police began to unravel what happened, they removed the victim's handcuffs and arrested the defendant,” said the prosecutor in the case.

One of the officers noticed two hand bags in the car and asked the victim who they belonged to, and he told them they belonged to the defendant.

The officer then began to examine the contents of the bags and the whole scene became much more serious.

At his home, they discovered a plan to kidnap and torture Yiosese, including how to turn off his phone and delete messages and contacts to avoid detection.

Sophie George initially denied two counts of attempted murder and one of possession of an offensive weapon, but pleaded guilty in May last year, just before the jury took the oath, after two days of legal arguments.

The court heard that the sentence was significantly delayed because she had refused to communicate with professionals so that a psychiatric report could be produced, even after Judge Henson ordered that she be sent to the hospital for evaluation.

The psychiatrist could only say that he didn't seem to have any mental health problems, learning disabilities or autism.

She was sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison, of which she must serve at least two years in custody, with an extended four-year license.

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