Husband battered British woman to death in brutal attack designed to maximise her suffering

Jayne Railton was beaten to death in a brutal attack by her common-law husband 

The killer of an expat British woman who was battered to death in her home in Gran Canaria has been jailed. 

Jayne Railton, 58, was so severely beaten she suffered a split pancreas and virtually all her ribs were broken in July 2016. 

She died just over a month after the assault at Doctor Negrin Hospital after failing to recover from her injuries.

Angel Perez Reyes, 64, Jayne’s common law husband was jailed for 22 years, six months and one day in prison after a jury found him guilty of her murder at a court in the Gran Canaria capital Las Palmas.

The pair had been together for 11 years and shared a home in the village of La Angostura near the town of Santa Brigida in the northeastern part of Gran Canaria.   

But on July 21, 2016, Reyes punched and kicked his partner so hard one rib was fractured four times.

Angel Perez Reynes, 64, tried to claim that he never wanted to kill his partner, Jayne, when he attacked her at home in Gran Canaria 

Angel Perez Reynes, 64, tried to claim that he never wanted to kill his partner, Jayne, when he attacked her at home in Gran Canaria 

Sick Perez Reyes tried to cover up his assault by telling one of his victim’s daughters she had fallen on the floor after drinking too much and insisted on putting her to bed himself.

Judge Nicolas Acosta Gonzalez, in a 15-page written sentencing document released on Wednesday, said jurors had agreed Jayne’s common-law husband had ‘dealt her a series of direct and very violent blows with kicks to her chest and abdomen with which he intended not only to cause her death but also to increase her suffering.’

Jayne had spent most of her life in Spain after emigrating from the UK.

A minute's silence was held for murdered mother Jayne Railton outside a church in Gran Canaria 

A minute’s silence was held for murdered mother Jayne Railton outside a church in Gran Canaria 

The expat, who worked as a private English teacher and part-time waitress, moved to Gran Canaria after meeting a police officer she married and had her four children with.

She labelled her ex-husband a ‘dictator’ and spoke of the psychological violence she had suffered at his hands in an autobiographical account of her life.

She told her life story in an interview she gave in May 2015 for a photographic exhibition in Gran Canaria organised by a local police officer.

She admitted: ‘My ex-husband was very dictatorial.

‘He didn’t hit me and although we had violent rows, it rarely became physical, thank God.’

She recommended during her interview that women with violent husbands should end their relationships.

Asked then how she was doing following her separation from her ex and link-up with her new partner, she insisted: ‘I like the place where I live, I have a beautiful view, I have a partner and we hope to get old together because I was very afraid of ending up alone.’

A doctor who gave evidence at her killer’s murder trial described her injuries as some of the most severe she had ever seen in her life.

Perez Reyes has also been ordered to pay his victim’s children €150,000 (£130,000).

He has been told he can appeal. 



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