Heathrow employee dubbed the Love Bug Killer is jailed for all times

A Heathrow Airport employee, who was dubbed the Love Bug Killer after utilizing a listening gadget to document his housemate’s ‘most intimate moments’ after which murdering her in jealous rage, has been jailed for all times.

Sheldon Rodrigues, 30, was dwelling with Stephanie Hansen, 39, in Hayes, west London ten years after ending a short relationship.

Ms Hansen was not involved in her housemate romantically however Rodrigues remained obsessed and was livid when she began an affair with married airport warehouseman Celso Cabillan.

Rodrigues arrange an outdated cellphone of their entrance room, in addition to a bug in Hansen’s bed room, as recording gadgets and spent greater than 100 hours, the equal of virtually one week, tuning in whereas working as a cargo agent for American Airlines at Heathrow and when he was on vacation to his native Goa.

An enraged Rodrigues tried to get Mr Cabillan, who he labored with at Swissport, fired from his work by emailing his boss from India.

The jealous airport employee additionally adopted him dwelling in the future from work.

Rodrigues despatched stunning threats to Hansen’s new lover, who she had met whereas working as a cargo agent for Swissport, together with a message threatening to ‘hunt you down and destroy you’ – however pretending it was from Mr Cabillan’s spouse.

He additionally put a chilling picture of The Joker on his Facebook web page with the caption: ‘We cease on the lookout for monsters underneath our mattress once we realise they’re inside us.’ 

On the evening of Ms Hansen’s dying, her housemate spent a complete nightshift listening in to the couple having intercourse on the bug in the lounge, with CCTV displaying him fiddling together with his earphones or touching his cellphone over 300 instances.

The Old Bailey that she was so noisy throughout intercourse that she might have been heard anyplace in the home.

As he left work on his bike at 6am, Rodrigues stopped to eavesdrop on the bug as soon as extra together with his ‘blood boiling’.

When he returned, Mr Cabillan had gone dwelling to his spouse and three youngsters however Ms Hansen was nonetheless in mattress.

Rodrigues rushed into the room and stabbed her no less than 20 instances with a kitchen knife earlier than battering her with a tower fan and her hairdyer.

The obsessed airport employee then spent greater than 24 hours in the home with the physique, ordering pizza and watching TV earlier than ultimately calling the police and trying to border Mr Cabillan.

Officers discovered traces of DNA on her decrease abdomen prone to have come from his semen.

Rodrigues’s blood was later discovered on her leg. 

Rodrigues instructed the operator: ‘I’ve simply discovered my housemate’s physique.

‘I’ve simply been in her room. I’ve discovered her in there.

‘I feel her boyfriend has carried out one thing to her. 

‘He stayed right here two nights in the past. 

‘There is blood spattered everywhere in the room as properly.’

After he was charged Rodrigues wrote a letter to his employers from his cell, telling them to analyze his rival.

Rodrigues was convicted of homicide by an Old Bailey jury in January.

Ms Hansen’s household atttended courtroom in pink garments, the sufferer’s favorite color.

In a shifting sufferer assertion mom Glenda stated: ‘Stephanie is gone and I’m damaged hearted, she is my treasured candy woman, the sensation of loss is unimaginable, the ache and sorrow figuring out I’ll by no means speak to her, maintain her once more, this can be a ache I should reside with on a regular basis.

‘She was a singular individual, she had no limitations with regard to class and color.

‘She spent spare time cleansing up paths and lakes, she needed to make the world a greater place for others.

‘She had her complete life forward of her, and she or he appeared ahead to getting married and having youngsters.’

She instructed Rodrigues: ‘Stephanie launched you to our household as a buddy she had identified for a few years, Stephanie trusted you and in flip, we trusted you.

‘I felt content material figuring out Stephanie had you round.

‘Stephanie was a personal individual however your refusal to confess guilt made us sit via weeks of torment and made us hear your lies.’

Her brother Russel Hansen stated: ‘I spent 20 years of my life serving my nation and in doing so I’ve been to among the most harmful nations on the planet.

‘When I used to be youthful, Stephanie protected me.

‘Despite my job, I couldn’t do the identical for her.

‘People maintain telling me time will heal, however I do not consider that.’

Judge Judy Khan, KC, sentenced Rodrigues to life imprisonment with a minimal time period of 25 years to cheers from the general public gallery.

He instructed the killer: ‘As a results of your actions, Stephanie Hansen has been disadvantaged of a promising future.

‘Members of her household have been right here all through the trial and are right here as we speak.

‘They have behaved with conspicuous dignity all through.’

The courtroom heard Rodrigues was an introverted laptop nerd who beloved fidgeting with telephones and devices.

Ms Hansen was a well-liked and vivacious Chelsea fan who was passionate in regards to the surroundings and picked up cuddly hedgehogs.

After his relationship with Ms Hansen resulted in 2014, Rodrigues’ solely sexual accomplice was the used blow-up doll police present in his room.

He was so obsessive about Ms Hansen that he would sit exterior the lavatory door cross legged when she was having a shower, begging to come back in.

When Ms Hansen went to see her dad and mom in Cambridge for Christmas and forgot to take a £3 hat she had purchased for her mom’s canine, Rodrigues jumped on a prepare to carry it from London.

He bombarded her with tons of of whining textual content messages begging for a relationship or to have intercourse ‘one final time’.

But although she had been on vacation to Greece with him earlier within the yr, Ms Hansen made it clear she needed nothing to do with him.

Rodrigues even supplied to have cosmetic surgery to alter his look in order that she would discover him extra enticing. 

He was paranoid about his penis measurement and requested Ms Hansen if she was seeing him as a result of he had a ‘greater one than me.’

The pair moved right into a home collectively in April 2022.

Rodrigues denied being obsessed and stated he was utilizing the bugs to listening out for burglars as a result of Ms Hansen would typically depart the door unlocked.

He denied however was convicted of homicide.

Rodrigues stared blankly throughout the listening to and confirmed no hint of emotion as he was led to the cells.