THE inquest into the death of Janet Muller will be re-opened after killer Christopher Raymond Jeffrey-Shaw was cleared of her murder.
Janet, 21, was killed when Jeffrey-Shaw torched his hire car when she was still alive in the boot on March 13, 2015.
He was found not guilty of her murder, but guilty of her manslaughter at a trial in February.
Jeffrey-Shaw’s version of events was that two drug dealers borrowed his car to commit an armed robbery and that he was ordered by them to set it alight.
He did so in a lane off Rusper Road in Crawley, he claimed without knowing Janet was in the boot.
No evidence the two drug dealers exist has ever come to light and Janet’s last sighting was in the early hours of March 13 walking east towards Brighton in Kinsgway, Hove, having walked out of a secure ward of Mill View Hospital in Nevill Avenue, Hove, twice the same day.
Jeffrey-Shaw admitted being in Brighton that night.
The original inquest into the University of Brighton student’s death was adjourned while the trial took place at Guildford Crown Court, but now it has been decided it should re-open following a hearing at Horsham Coroner's Court sitting at County Hall North on Friday.
A pre-inquest review is scheduled for July 28.
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