A woman murdered by a handyman had repeatedly complained to police about his disturbing behaviour before her death, a court has heard.
Naomi Hunte, 41, was found stabbed to death on a sofa by her neighbour on Valentine’s Day in 2022.
Carl Cooper, 66, was found guilty of her murder at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday after three days of deliberation from jurors.
Cooper was also found guilty of murdering Fiona Holm, 48, whose body has never been found, in June 2023.
The families of the two victims who were watching in court were visibly emotional as the verdict was given.
Hunte had made a number of domestic call-outs to police to her home in 2020 and 2021 and told them that Cooper was “obsessed” with her, the court heard at an earlier hearing.
In a police call-out to her home on June 29 2021, she told officers that Cooper “stalks me and I’m really scared now”.
Hunte told two attending officers the handyman had turned up at her home uninvited and shouted abuse through the front door.
She said it was the third time she had contacted them about Cooper, adding that although she had slept with him, they were not in a relationship.
The prosecution believe that Hunte was killed overnight on Feb 10.
A post-mortem examination found she had died from a stab wound to the chest.
Alcohol, cocaine and cannabis were also found in her system.
Her blood was later found on three different areas of Cooper’s jacket, and on a knife with a serrated knife.
Holm, of Catford, south-east London, had also made complaints about Cooper to the police.
Cooper lit fires in the immediate days after Holm went missing and also carried out a “wholesale redecoration” of his living room, which included stripping off wallpaper, cutting out net curtains and removing a rug, prosecutor Joel Smith KC previously told the jury.
Cooper, of Hither Green, south-east London, will be sentenced at the same court on Tuesday.
