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India Chipchase killer Edward Tenniswood was fearing for his life behind bars after being threatened by other inmates.

The 'delusional loner' who preyed upon the barmaid outside a nightclub before leading her home and strangling her to death was found guilty of her rape and murder.

Edward Tenniswood "squeezed the life" out of India Chipchase before leaving her body in his bed inside his flat in Northampton on January 30.

He whinged to his legal team that fellow prisoners wanted to kill him after reading about the case.

His barrister told the court during his trial that threats had been made to the 52-year-old.

Samuel Stein QC said inmates at HMP Woodhill, a Category A prison in Milton Keynes, Bucks., knew about the killing from media reports.

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He said: “From the response from other prisoners he asked to go into his own cell and to be shut in.

“He himself was threatened with strangulation, that they are going to ‘get that sick b*****d in the showers’.

“He tried to hold up some paper against the pane in the wall to prevent people seeing him.

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“He hasn’t slept. The level of threat is very serious. He’s not the largest person and is very vulnerable.”

Judge Mr Justice Saunders told Tenniswood’s lawyer to contact the prison governor over the matter.

It is understood further threats have since been made against the oddball, who will be 82 when he can first be considered for parole.

HMP Woodhill, dubbed Britain’s Alcatraz, has housed notorious inmates including Charles Bronson and Soham killer Ian Huntley.

It is not yet known where Tenniswood will serve his life sentence.

Today it was also revealed Tenniswood had a history of violence - with three different people claiming he assaulted them.

Bookkeeper Tenniswood was arrested after Miss Chipchase's body was found by police on a mattress covered by a sheet in his home. A post-mortem examination found the 20-year-old had been strangled.

Jurors were not told that one of the alleged victims said she was repeatedly raped by the evil killer.

The woman, who cannot be named, said Tenniswood carried out the sickening attacks when he was drunk.

Prosecutors wanted to use her evidence in the trial but it was ruled inadmissible by the judge.

The woman came forward with her chilling account just days after India’s body was discovered.

She said on one occasion he allegedly placed his hands around the back of her neck when she was trying to escape.

Tenniswood denied the claims, saying they did have drunken sex but it was consensual.

Another woman said he throttled and then kissed her after he got angry with her when she was a teen.

She claimed he pinned her down on another occasion and held a knife to her throat.

A third alleged victim, neighbour Douglas Killeya, said he was attacked by Tenniswood last year.

He said he put his hands around his neck “as if he was going to strangle me” after he refused to go for a drink with him.

Several jurors broke down in tears as victim impact statements from India’s parents were read out in court after the verdict was announced.

Her devastated mum Suzanne, 48, described India as “loving, kind and beautiful inside and out”.

She added: “This year she should be celebrating her 21st birthday. As a family we will not be able to do that this year, or any year to come.

“She was such a vibrant person and there was never a dull moment when she was around.

“I miss my daughter more than words can express, but she will always be with me.

“She lit up a room whenever she walked in and remembering that will always make me smile.

“By the actions of this man we have been condemned to a life sentence of grieving for a child whose potential we will never see.

“Nothing that happens to that man will be enough to fill the void and pain that he has caused to our family.”

India’s father Jeremy, 49, who works as a doctor in Adelaide, Australia, said he hoped “no other woman ever suffers at the hands of her murderer”.

He added: “For 20 years myself and India’s mother loved India.

“We loved her then and we will always love her, even though we will never experience her laughter again her memory will live on in spirit.

“I don’t want another father to hear their daughter’s gone missing like I did, then to hear her body has been found.

“I hope no other father has to see their daughter’s body in a mortuary and to be told he may not touch her or kiss her.

“We will continue to have this pain, anguish and emotion until our last breaths.”

Chilling CCTV released today shows the moment Tenniswood targeted defenseless India as she stood outside a nightclub in a 'drunken stupor'.

Security footage shows how he approached India and talked her into getting into a taxi with him telling her - "I'll make sure you get home safe".

After India was inside Tenniswood's house, India's boyfriend Grant Hare tried to call her a number of times but her phone rang out.

Proescuting, Christopher Donnellan QC had told the court: "It is very likely his motive was sexual and when she resisted him he was determined to have sex and he grabbed her around the throat and squeezed.

He held her until she was unable to resist any more."

Tenniswood, a self-confessed alcoholic, then claimed he failed to notice India's lifeless body despite re-fastening the 20-year-old's bra, and re-clothing her, while wearing surgical-type latex gloves, before leaving his victim alone.

Instead of raising the alarm, he went out 'for 20 minutes' to get a kebab but then spent the next 22 hours drinking lager in an Ibis hotel until police arrested him.

Jurors were shown dramatic body-cam footage of the moment cops discovered India dead after smashing their way into Tenniswood's home.

The 20-year-old was found with more than 60 injuries including bruising to her forehead, her cheek and cuts to the inside of her cheek and her lip.

PC Steven Knight told Birmingham Crown Court: "As I got in the doorway I could see a mattress with a blanket over the top. I could see a shape of a figure.

"It was the hair at the top the mattress I could see - black hair.

"At first I thought it was fur, but as I got closer I could see it was her hair. The hair was splayed. Instead of being down, it was pulled up and around. Sort of a halo."

Asked what he did next, the Northamptonshire Police officer added: "I took a corner of the blanket and pulled it away so I could see the face."

Body-cam footage from another officer who followed PC Knight into the room recorded police as they were confronted with the fact that India was past any medical help.

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In the footage, Mr Knight can be heard desperately shouting to the prone, fully-clothed young woman: "Can you hear me? Can we get a paramedic?"

He then says to another officer: "We've got a positive ID."

The constable again tries to get some response from India, yelling: "Sweetheart? Sweetheart, can you wake up? Can you hear me?"

As the reality of what the officers have discovered dawns on them, a policewoman, off-camera, can be heard to say: "She's gone, she's gone. S***, she's gone."