Who is Luke Deeley and where is he now?
LUKE DEELEY was 25 years old when he murdered and dismembered the body of a complete stranger.
The police investigation into Deeley’s crime has been documented in ITV‘s July 2023 series Code Blue: The Killing of June Fox-Roberts.
Who is Luke Deeley?
Luke Deeley was a student at the University of South Wales who murdered a stranger in their own home in November 2021.
Deeley, a paranoid schizophrenic, had been studying illustration before he killed June Fox-Roberts.
Ten days before he carried out the murder he left his student accomodation.
He had had complaints made against him after he threw water over a female student and called her a “c***”.
Deeley was reported to be obsessed with “Satan and demons”.
What did Luke Deeley do to June Fox-Roberts?
On November 21, 2021, Luke entered the home of mother, grandmother and great-grandmother June Fox-Roberts.
IT consultant June, who had been widowed over a decade before, had never met Deeley before and was a complete stranger to him.
After letting himself into her house in Llantwit Fardre, South Wales, Deeley bludgeoned June and knocked her out.
He then dragged her unconscious body into her dining room and decapitated her with an axe.
He proceeded to chop up June’s body, placing her limbs in plastic bags.
Deeley was also armed with a chainsaw.
The killer then fled the scene and the aftermath of the horrific event was later found by one of June’s daughters.
A post mortem found that June had suffered blunt force injuries to her head while she was still alive.
She sustained injuries that indicated “stamping”, as well as the blow to the forehead had knocked her out.
Where is Luke Deeley now?
Deeley pleaded guilty to manslaughter by way of diminished responsibility in March 2023.
It was then reported in April 2023 that he had been detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital under the Mental Health Act.
Deeley was arrested two days after June’s murder and claimed to police that he had been instructed to kill someone by a “higher power”.
After killing June, in a bid to change his appearance, Luke had shaved and dyed his hair.
At Deeley’s trial, CCTV footage played to the court showed him talking and singing to himself after he murdered June.
He was also wrapped in a blanket in the footage.
After Deeley’s sentencing, June’s family released a statement saying their “world imploded” on the day of her death.
Describing June as someone who “had a huge heart”, they said their family member had been taken from them “in a horrific way”.
Their statement continued: “June was not afraid of death, but she wanted to die peacefully with her family around her and Luke stole that right from her and all of us when he took her life years before her natural time.”