Man with ‘deep-seated’ hatred of s*x workers ‘murdered 2 women 21 years apart’

Gary Arthur Allen, 46, is accused of murdering Samantha Class, 29, from Hull in 1997 and Alena Grlakova, 38, in Rotherham in 2018, jurors at his trial were told today

Gary Arthur Allen, aged 46, is arrested for killing Samantha Class, 29, from Hull in 1997 and Alena Grlakova, 38, in Rotherham in 2018.

21 years apart there is a man with a “deep-seated” dislike of sex workers who have gone on trial for the murders of two women. A court heard that there is one of his victims was imprinted on, choked, and run over by a car before being dumped in a river. After he was vindicated back in 2000, the jury has been told this morning it will be the second time he has gone on trial accused of Samantha’s murder.

He claimed that the mum-of-three Alena on Boxing Day 2018 he purportedly went on to murder a second woman. According to the prosecutor’s statement post-mortem exam recommended she had been choked with a strap with “severe force” and then run over by a car. And added by Mr. MacDonald QC related it also found her “death had been caused by what is called ligature strangulation”. He said pathologist, Dr. Guy Rutty, settled:
“This female has been subjected to an assault, which included severe blunt force trauma in the form of stamping to the head, neck, chest and upper abdominal areas, followed by ligature strangulation and finally she was run over in part before the attempt to dispose of the body by putting it into the River Humber.” When Samantha was murdered the court heard the arrested had sold his car a few days after. From severe blunt force trauma Samantha Class had suffered a “violent, sustained, and fatal” attack.

This afternoon he told the jury: “He was tried for that murder at Sheffield Crown Court in February 2000 and found not guilty.
“Ordinarily that would have been that and an end of matters but in this country, the law allows, in certain limited circumstances, for the prosecution to apply for an acquittal to be overturned based on new evidence and ask for there to be a fresh trial.

“You will notice strangulation is a significant feature of each of the offenses against the sex workers in Plymouth just as it was the cause of death in the case of Samantha Class and, as we are to hear, Alena Glrakova,” the prosecutor told the court”. He also told the jury: “just weeks after being found not guilty Allen moved to Plymouth and went on to assault two sex workers.The prosecutor claimed “strangulation” was also a feature in these crimes as it was in the two murders”.