14/09/2007

Murdered Kent Teacher Named

A female teacher murdered in the on the grounds of a Kent Prison has been named locally as Louise Evans.

Ms Evans was found behind her car at East Sutton Park Open Prison near Maidstone, at 1715 BST on Wednesday. The teacher worked for private contractor A4e to deliver the Offender Learning and Skills Service.

Police have not confirmed reports that the woman, who was in her 40s, had been found with her throat cut open.

Hugh Robertson, Conservative MP for Faversham and Mid Kent, said: “East Sutton Park is –normally a quiet part of the local community and everybody will be hoping police can find the murderer soon.”

The woman's family have been informed.

Detectives have been speaking to staff and inmates as part of their enquires, although it is not believed that the murder is linked to the incarcerated women.

Officers meanwhile are studying CCTV images from a business on the road leading to the prison.

Kent Police have set up a major incident room at their Maidstone headquarters.

East Sutton Park, described as a pleasant mansion house overlooking the Weald of Kent, first opened as a borstal in 1946.

It holds both adult and young offender women in open conditions preparing them for resettlement in the community, according to the Prison Service.

(DS/SP)

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