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Winter Swan-Miller, a TikTok user, boasted about her actions on the platform shortly after she murdered Army veteran Stuart Maxwell Crocker. Swan-Miller recorded and posted a TikTok video while Crocker’s body lay lifeless in the same flat at The Signals, New Street, Andover, on June 23, last year.
The body of Mr Crocker, 60, was only discovered five days later when a concerned neighbour called 999.
Swan-Miller was found guilty of Mr. Crocker’s murder following a 12-week trial at Winchester Crown Court. She was sentenced on Tuesday, August 6, to serve a minimum of 23 years in prison.
Hampshire Constabulary released the TikTok video posted by Swan-Miller following the brutal attack on Mr. Crocker. In the video, Swan-Miller told her followers: “I’m going to be taking a break from TikTok for a bit I think because I’ve been a bad girl. If you want to write to me, I’ll happily write back.”
She continued: “I can only explain when the time comes but I had to do what I did because of my situation. You probably won’t want to speak to me when you find out, anyway, but there is more to the story than just one side. I just hope that it all goes well really. At the moment I feel sick, I don’t think that I’ve done a bad thing at all.”
The 37-year-old also mentioned she was hungry and planned to go for a McDonald’s breakfast and visit Tesco to get her therapy dog Oblivion a new lead, claiming that Oblivion “got stolen by drug addicts.”
During the trial, jurors were shown several TikTok videos posted on the same day as the murder. In one video titled “Part Two,” Swan-Miller can be heard saying: “Taking my dog from me, the only thing in the entire world that I’ve got. I did do what I did and I did it because I had no choice. They took away the only thing in my life that I have got, and that’s my dog Oblivion.”
She added: “You took away my dog, you all did this.”
Hampshire Constabulary praised the courage of Mr. Crocker’s family throughout the trial. The chilling TikTok videos served as critical evidence in securing Swan-Miller’s conviction, illustrating her callous attitude towards her heinous crime.
