Alibi mum faces UK exile

Anita Turner faces a Home Office hearing on Dec 19 where she'll learn if she'll be kicked out of the UK.

Mother of Kiwi Emily Longley’s killer could be sent back to Indonesia after serving her sentence for covering up his crime

The mother of Elliot Turner - the British man who killed Aucklander Emily Longley in 2011 - is facing an immigration hearing in the United Kingdom and could be deported.

A source close to the investigation revealed to the Herald on Sunday that Indonesian-born Anita Turner faces a Home Office hearing on December 19 where she will learn whether she will be kicked out of the UK.

Her son, Elliot Turner, strangled 17-year-old Longley, his girlfriend, in a fit of jealous, drunken rage in May 2011 in his family's Bournemouth, UK, home.

He will serve at least 16 years of a life sentence after failing to win an appeal to quash his murder conviction.

Emily Longley

Turner and her husband, Leigh, were jailed for 27 months for perverting the course of justice after they destroyed their son's confession letter and took evidence from the murder scene.

They were released from jail in September last year, having served half of their sentence.

The Herald on Sunday understands their probation conditions have also now been lifted.

Emily's father, Mark Longley, said the news came as a "surprise" but gave him no joy.

"It's just another added consequence of what her son, Elliot Turner, did.

If he hadn't murdered Emily all the subsequent things wouldn't have happened either," he said.

Longley said that when he met the Turners at their son's trial he expected compassion from them as fellow parents, but found none.

"They were the ones whose house Emily died in and so I did expect some compassion but there was nothing from them."

"Anita Turner made us feel like it was our fault that her son killed our daughter, so I don't have any compassion for her at all. If she gets deported, well they brought it on themselves really. They perverted the course of justice so she's suffering the consequences now."

It has now been more than three years since Emily was murdered, and life hasn't got any easier for her family. "We've all moved on from the Turners certainly. They don't have any influence over our lives any more," said Longley.

"We've moved on from them, but not from what they did to Emily and not from the loss of Emily either."