She said: “Just because he’s locked away doesn’t mean my ordeal is over. Willis, 49, is due to be sentenced at Exeter Crown Court in June after being convicted of attempted murder.īut Helen insists no jail sentence will ever be long enough to help her get over the emotional torture she endured at his hands.
She only survived because a heroic passer-by dragged him off her. Yet despite begging for help at least 120 times, cops failed to take the threats against her seriously enough.Īnd within a fortnight of the cat being dumped on Helen’s doorstep, stalker Joe Willis dragged the 34-year-old into a graveyard and stabbed her eight times with a pair of scissors. It was the penultimate act in a terrifying stalking drama launched five years earlier by Willis.ĭuring that time he had plagued her with hate-mail, vandalised her car and bike, bombarded her with menacing texts and daubed threatening graffiti outside her home – including the sick warning: “Die, Helen, die.” Helen answered a knock on her door one day – and was horrified to find a dead cat lying in a pool of blood on the mat. Willis now faces a long jail sentence for attempted murder.
The charity worker said: “The police had ample opportunity to catch him before he tried to kill me.” Helen, 34, from Exeter, was saved by a passer-by. Loner Joe Willis, 49, inflicted horrific wounds with a foot-long pair of scissors. For other uses, see Concorde (disambiguation).Īérospatiale/ BAC Concorde ( English pronunciation: Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".) is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet airliner that was operated until 2003.Petrified Helen Pearson begged cops for help 120 times as she endured a five-year reign of terror at the hands of a stalker.īut she claims police FAILED to take her seriously – until her tormentor stabbed her eight times in a churchyard.
It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph or 2,180 km/h at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued flying for the next 27 years. It is one of only two supersonic transports to have been operated commercially the other is the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144, which was operated for a much shorter period.Ĭoncorde was jointly developed and manufactured by Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) under an Anglo-French treaty. Twenty aircraft were built, including six prototypes and development aircraft. Air France (AF) and British Airways (BA) were the only airlines to purchase and fly Concorde. The aircraft was primarily used by wealthy passengers who could afford to pay a high price in exchange for Concorde's speed and luxury service. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Washington Dulles International Airport and Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados it flew these routes in less than half the time of other airliners.Ĭoncorde's name, meaning "harmony" or "union", was chosen to reflect the co-operation on the project between the United Kingdom and France.Īmong other destinations, Concorde flew regular transatlantic flights from London's Heathrow Airport and Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport to John F. In the UK, any or all of the type are known simply as Concorde, with no definite article the. Concorde won the 2006 Great British Design Quest organised by the BBC and the Design Museum, beating other well-known designs such as the BMC Mini, the miniskirt, the Jaguar E-Type, the London Tube map and the Supermarine Spitfire. The type was retired in 2003 after the crash of Air France Flight 4590, in which all passengers and crew were killed. The general downturn in the commercial aviation industry after the September 11 attacks in 2001, and the ceasing of maintenance support for Concorde by Airbus (the successor company of both Aérospatiale and BAC), also contributed.
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