UK Loner Jailed for Life for ‘Planned’ Murder of Police Community Support Officer

Callum Wheeler (L) carrying the railway jack that he used to kill Julia James (R) on April 28, the day after her murder. Gavin Tucker/Kent Police/PA

A loner who ambushed an off-duty police community support officer as she walked her dog in woodland in southern England has been jailed for life for her murder.

Callum Wheeler, 22, used a railway jack to beat Julia James, 53, to death in Ackholt Wood, near her home in the former coal-mining village of Snowdown in Kent.