David Harris, a 69-year-old retired TV producer, fell in love with Ugne Cekaviciute, a Lithuanian girl he says he met in a brothel.
He ran up large debts entertaining her in expensive hotels and lavishing gifts on her and decided he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her but his partner Hazel Allinson, aged 69 and a TV scriptwriter, had all the money and the £800,000 country house.
So he decided to have her killed and sought out who he thought might do the job as a contract killer.
- The first man, a mechanic and a trainee private investigator, panicked when he realised it wasn’t a debt collection job and told the man’s wife
- The second man he approached told the police
- The third man he approached was an undercover police officer
So not a happy ending for Mr Harris who had promised the contract killers £250,000 to do the job so he could retire to the seaside with his much younger girlfriend, a 28-year old graduate from Vytautus Magnus University (an institution I know from my time in Kaunas studying there). And he should have know better as he was a TV producer on the popular police series The Bill!
His trial continues but it’s not going to be a happy ending for anyone!
Update 22/5/17
David Harris was found guilty last week of soliciting Hazel Allison’s murder after just 5 hours deliberation by the jury. The judge has ordered him to be assessed for a personality disorder.
His partner, Hazel Allison, whom he tried to have killed, refused to give evidence against him even though she knew Harris had spent tens of thousands of pounds of her money on Miss Cekaviciute whom he met in a brothel in Worthing. She also refused to make a victim impact statement and doesn’t believe he should have been charged.
Ugne Cekaviciute denies she is a sex worker and plans to write a book about their 5-year relationship. She was a member of the Lithuanian basketball team as a teenager but moved to Britain in 2010 as a flower picker after dropping out of university. She then moved to London working as a waitress, in an hotel accounts department and as a carer for people with disabilities.
She met Harris in 2011 when she was working in a brothel in Worthing and he helped her to enrol on a business studies course and helped her with her homework. He also bought her presents and paid for her flights home to see her family. She lived with her younger brother and his family and apparently Harris had no idea that she was a prostitute, although he used them regularly.
She said “we are just friends. He was dreaming about more” and her mother described him as a fantasist, childish and infantile. Funny that when the police arrested Harris in an hotel in Balham they found them lying together naked. However since being held in Belmarsh prison he has converted to catholicism and considers himself a changed man.
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