Colin Ash-Smith had already tried to kill a woman before Claire's death, court hears

"At the time of Claire's murder Ash-Smith was 24 years old and by that time he had already in December 1988 committed one serious offence against a local woman, some four years earlier, in which he had attempted to murder her by strangling her, and by stabbing her several times in the back, and he had attempted to rape her. She was lucky to survive. The killing of Claire Tiltman did not end his spree because two years later he attacked and stabbed another local woman 360 metres from where the prosecution say he attacked Claire "