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Killer Walks Right by Victim’s Mom Moments After Dumping Body
Lily Sullivan refused her murderer’s sexual advances and ended up floating in a pond for it.
On the 16th of December 2021, 18-year-old college student, Lily Sullivan met Lewis Haines at a Pembroke, south-west Wales nightclub called Out. Little did she know that this encounter would lead to a fatal outcome.
At 2:47 a.m. on the 17th, she spoke with her mom on the phone to arrange to be picked up, saying, “I’ll be there now mam. I’m on my way. I’m a couple of minutes away. I’m nearly there.”
She never arrived.
It was just before Christmas during what was supposed to be the most joyous time of the year. Lily was out socializing with friends, but that evening she found herself alone in the dark with a man she barely knew. She had no chance of escaping.
When Lewis Haines arrived home, he told his girlfriend, “I’ve strangled somebody.”
Haines was a 31-year-old oil refinery worker and father of one in a relationship with a woman at the time of the crime. When friends saw Haines chatting up the young teenager in the nightclub they shouted, “What are you doing? You’ve got a girlfriend and she’s only 18.”
