After suffering a traumatic past, Elizabeth McCann was doing everything she could to change her life for the better until she met her killer
Lizzie told her dad she’d call her mum and wish her goodnight. As she hung up, Simon Goold handed her another shot of Sambuca.
Her parents had warned her about a man called ‘Simon’, but little did she know about his terrifying past and the horrors he had in store for her that night. Things improved when she gave birth to her daughter, but sadly she was taken into foster care. They kept in regular contact, writing letters to one another.
Enrolling for another 12 months, she was getting back into the swing of things again, taking courses in Silk painting, pet therapy and a coffee afternoon. This would be the last session she went to. After a quick chat with her community engagement worker, she called Goold, after he had reached out to her asking if she was OK following the session earlier in the week.
In October 2010, he invited a neighbour into his flat for a drink. Everything seemed fine, they had a cider and chatted.Suddenly he grabbed a knife, plunging it into her leg and leaving a 5cm wound. He then held the knife up to her throat and kissed her, before telling her: “I want to kill you and bury you in the back garden.”
There were also specific risks of him being ‘preoccupied with sexual violence’ which would be exacerbated if he was in contact with lone females, especially if he was feeling lonely. Goold can be heard saying: “Yeah, so tell me now, you wanted to be tied up didn’t you”. She replied “at first yeah”. He then asked, “yeah and you wanted to have your head, your mouth, your eyes gagged, and your hands tied behind your back didn’t you?”. To this, she replies, “yeah, but now I think about it, it’s really painful”.
- Greater Manchester Rape Crisis is a confidential information, support and counselling service run by women for women over 18 who have been raped or sexually abused at any time in their lives. Call on 0161 273 4500 or email [email protected] Goold's lies to the police and inevitable confession As the next morning rolled around, Elizabeth was dead. Her blood was splattered around the room and Goold had just one option - to confess.
A pathologist who conducted a post mortem report found that Elizabeth had 46 separate internal and external injuries to her body. He said there were clear ligature marks around her neck that would have required ‘sustained pressure’ for a ‘considerable period’. “She had been through trauma in her childhood when she was sexually abused by a family member and struggled with her mental health. She took fluoxetine for a number of years, sometimes she made silly decisions and would often run things by us.
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