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Killer who murdered schoolgirl to hide his sexual abuse dies without body being found

A paedophile who murdered a schoolgirl so she wouldn't report his sexual abuse to police has died in prison without her body ever being found.

Twisted Robert Ewing was convicted of killing 15-year-old Paige Chivers at his Blackpool flat in 2007.

She was reported missing almost 15 years ago and she was officially declared dead following an inquest in 2016.

But the teenager's remains have never been located, LancsLive report.

Ewing was jailed for life in 2015 following a trial at Preston Crown Court but died behind bars seven years later.

Bloodstains belonging to Paige were found by a police forensics team in the hallway of his flat in 2007 (PA)
She was officially declared dead following an inquest in 2016 (PA)

The 68-year-old was found inside his prison cell last week, it has been confirmed.

A spokesman for the Prison Service said: “We can confirm that Robert Ewing, 68, died in prison on Friday, November 4.”

Neo-Nazi Ewing, who a judge described as ‘evil incarnate’ when sentencing him to life in prison, never told police where he and his accomplice Gareth Dewhurst disposed of Paige's body.

His death is not being treated as suspicious, it has been reported. It is understood that he died of natural causes.

The former home of paedophile Robert Ewing (PA)

Arrogant Ewing, who smiled for his police mugshot photograph, sat with his arms folded for most of the hearing and calmly walked from the dock after sentencing.

Four years ago, he had his term increased after he was found guilty of abusing a young girl and boy in the early 1990s.

His trial heard how he exploited the vulnerable teenager for his sexual gratification and then killed her when she threatened to go to the authorities.

Sentencing judge Mr Justice Jeremy Baker said "intelligent" and "devious" Ewing had carried out a "carefully planned and executed murder".

She was preyed on by Ewing, who allowed teenage girls to drink, smoke and take drugs in his flat. He had previously served a year in prison for gross indecency and indecently assaulting a 13-year-old girl.

When Paige threatened to report his sex abuse, she was murdered by Ewing in August 2007.

Dewhurst, 46, also from Blackpool, who helped Ewing to dispose of the body, was jailed for seven years for assisting an offender and an additional year for intending to pervert the course of justice by intimidating witnesses.

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