Appeal argument dismissed

During his trial Turner claimed that he acted in self-defence when Emily attacked him and he grabbed her by the throat for five or six seconds and then woke up to find her dead in his bed at his home.

The prosecution said Turner used a pillow to smother Emily and then strangled her after she went back to his house to talk things over following a violent argument that night..

Turner's QC Anthony Donne told the appeal judges earlier today the appeal against conviction centred on the use by the police of a covert listening device at his family home in Bournemouth

But this argument was dismissed by the appeal judges.