Overview

• Solicitor General Lucy Rigby challenged the initial 25½-year minimum term as unduly lenient, triggering the appellate review that led to a 31-year minimum.
• Judges highlighted the calculated targeting of a lone woman at Minnis Bay and the concealment of Knights’s body for two days as key aggravating factors.
• Elliott Knights-Sloane expressed frustration at the lack of progress on women’s safety and public indifference following his mother’s murder.
• Criminologist David Wilson warned that “overkill” violence is increasing in tandem with the mainstreaming of misogynistic and incel ideologies.
• Court documents show Van-Pooss feigned psychosis after his arrest and had pleaded guilty to an upskirting offence the day before the killing.