Posing for a yr group picture, this brown-haired faculty woman seems like another, as she smiles into the digital camera.
The then 16-year-old is dressed well in her faculty uniform and surrounded by her friends.
But quick ahead 5 years and Alice Wood was sat in a police interview room being quizzed over the homicide of her boyfriend.
Alice Wood (pictured) in her faculty uniform aged 16. She now faces life in jail
The 23-year-old went from a high-flying scholar, who had simply been supplied a spot on a postgraduate course at Cambridge University, to a younger girl now going through life in jail.
It comes after she drove at her fiancé Ryan Watson thrice in May 2022, dragging him nearly a tenth of a mile alongside a street beneath her automotive.
Wood apparently resented Mr Watson talking to a different girl at a celebration in Stoke.
The actions of Wood, who shall be sentenced on January 29 after being convicted of homicide earlier this week, have shocked neighbours and old fashioned pals.
Friends recalled her being ‘quiet’ and never fast to anger rising up, referring to her as a ‘faculty swot’. She even had her exemplary grades tattooed on her arm.
Bodyworn digital camera footage launched by Cheshire Police exhibits Wood sobbing as she was arrested on suspicion of homicide
Wood, who had been ingesting, acquired behind the wheel of her automotive and drove into her boyfriend in what horrified neighbours described as a ‘sport of rooster’.
Ryan Watson (pictured) was dragged greater than 500ft alongside the street beneath his fiancé’s automotive
Alice Wood is warned she faces a life sentence after mowing down her boyfriend Ryan Watson in a jealous rage
The pair had been having fun with one another’s firm on the occasion earlier than she grew jealous at him receiving consideration from one other girl
Knocking on the door of a neighbour’s dwelling, she mentioned: ‘I believe I’ve run over my boyfriend. And as police arrived with handcuffs she sobbed: ‘It’s superb, I deserve it.’
A former faculty pal advised the Mirror that Wood had been sure for larger issues earlier than she mowed down Mr Watson, leaving the household of the charity employee ‘heartbroken’.
The ex-pal mentioned: ‘Alice by no means confirmed any indicators of jealousy, anger or aggression and wasn’t the kind of individual you needed to be cautious round. I believe that’s why it got here as such a shock.
‘Speaking to everybody who knew her the overall consensus is that is sudden. She was actually sensible, like effortlessly so.
‘In the primary yr of secondary she was chosen for the gifted and gifted group, acquired three A-stars at A-level and was one in every of just a few pupils within the faculty’s historical past to get to the ultimate choice stage for Oxford.’
Wood and Mr Watson had purchased a home collectively in Rode Heath, Cheshire, in October 2021 for £120,000 with assist from their mother and father, seven months earlier than she made the fateful choice to get behind the wheel of her Ford Fiesta.