A convicted killer who murdered a woman whose body has never been found has had his latest bid for parole rejected.
Peter Turner was sentenced to life in prison in 1996 after he was found guilty of murdering 26-year-old Teresa Shephard, from Sheffield, who went missing in June 1995.
Last month, police excavated an area of land off Piper Lane in Aston, Rotherham, in search of Teresa’s body, but later confirmed nothing had been found.
Ruling on Turner’s seventh bid for release, the Parole Board said it was “not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public”.
Teresa was last seen by her grandmother when she went to pick up washing at the beginning of June 1995.
On the day of her disappearance, she told friends she was catching a tram to a nearby shopping centre to meet a man for a picnic in some fields and was never seen again.
The Parole Board heard how Teresa had been in a relationship with Turner, which had ended in the summer of 1994.
Turner, from Worksop, “became obsessed” with [her] seeing other men,” the panel was told.
Using false details, he arranged to view a house being sold by Teresa’s new partner and struck him on the head with a hammer, fracturing his skull.
Teresa was due to give evidence against Turner at trial for the grievous bodily harm (GBH) offence, but disappeared shortly before the hearing.
“It is said that Mr Turner murdered the victim and then disposed of her body because she was going to give evidence against him in the trial,” the panel said.
