In this gripping video, we dive deep into the tragic and horrifying murder of Alice Ruggles, a young woman whose life was cruelly taken in 2016. For months, the case remained unsolved, haunting her loved ones and the community. But in an unexpected turn of events, justice was served when new evidence finally brought the killer to light in 2017.
Chapter 1: Who was Alice Ruggles?
We are going to be discussing the murder of Alice Ruggles. Alice Ruggles was born on Christmas Eve on December 24th, 1991 to her parents, Sue Hills and Clive Ruggles. She had two older siblings, Nick and Emma, and a younger brother, Patrick. Alice and her family grew up in the very small town of Turlington in Leicestershire, England. I do apologize if I pronounced that town name wrong.
Chapter 2: What was Alice's early life like?
Her family was described as being very close-knit. They had a family group chat on WhatsApp that they used to text back and forth every single day, even after all of the Ruggles children grew up and moved out of the house. Even after doing so, they all stayed in constant contact.
Then every year around Christmas time, all of the kids would come up to celebrate Alice's birthday, even though everyone lived scattered across the country. Alice was described by her family as having an outgoing and happy personality. She was the type of person who would always make her presence known.
She was known to make jokes and make everybody around her laugh and play little mischievous pranks on her siblings. She was known to be witty, smart, and come up with jokes on the spot. She wasn't afraid to be the center of attention, being a natural entertainer. She sang at school concerts and performed in numerous plays.
For her senior year, she chose to move schools to attend the Leicester High School for Girls, where her mother Sue worked. This transition was easy for her though, because she was very good at making friends. When she was younger, she had started on the fencing team, and it became a big part of her life, competing in many competitions over the years.
When she was 18 years old and it was time to start university, she was choosing schools based on how good their fencing team was. Ultimately, she chose Northumbria University about 200 miles north of her hometown of Turlington. She joined their fencing team and even became the captain of the team. She did this at the same time as she worked towards her degree in product engineering.
She graduated by 2014 and went on to get a job with the UK broadcasting company Sky in Newcastle, England. She absolutely loved city life in Newcastle so she decided to stay there for the time being, living with a couple of roommates in a flat in Gateshead. she was independent, intelligent, and confident, and she could hold her own and take care of herself.
By 2015, Alice met a 25-year-old man named Tremond Dillon, who went by Harry, so that is what I will call him for the rest of the video. So Harry was born in India, and he was the only child to his parents, However, him and his parents often moved around because his father was in the army, so he ended up moving to the UK.
When he graduated from high school, he went on to study strategy management at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh in Scotland. Then, once he was finished with his degree, he graduated and decided to enlist in the British army. Once he was in the army, he was stationed in Afghanistan and he served a non-combat position.
While there, he often used Facebook to stay in contact with friends and family who lived back in India as well as Scotland. By 2015, he had been scrolling through a friend's pictures on Facebook and that is when he noticed Alice. It was a picture of her that her friend had posted of her while they were on vacation in Sri Lanka.
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Chapter 3: How did Alice meet Harry Dillon?
So, she decided to send him a message and introduce herself. Very quickly, the two started chatting back and forth and started video chatting several times per week. Harry seemed like he was sweet, attentive, and charming, and Alice fell for him pretty quickly. By January of 2016, the two had finally had the opportunity to meet up in person when he returned to the UK.
So they spent a total of two weeks together. They spent the first week together in Newcastle and then the two of them went to Edinburgh together because that is where his barracks were located. During these two weeks, it was basically what you would expect for the honeymoon phase of a relationship. She was so happy and excited to finally meet him in person and to spend all of this time together.
But these happy two weeks came to an end and he was deployed back on his final two-month tour back in Afghanistan. However, after these two months ended and he returned back to Scotland in April, friends and colleagues of Alice started to notice a distinct shift in her behavior.
Like I said earlier, Alice was normally happy, cheerful, and very animated when she would talk with her friends and colleagues.
but those around her started to notice that she was becoming withdrawn and distracted she seemed very distant and anytime a co-worker or a friend would talk to her they could tell that it seemed like her mind was always elsewhere people around her started to notice that she was losing a lot of weight in a short period of time and she stopped socializing or going out with her friends she also started to have difficulties at home she started getting into different disagreements and arguments with her roommates
that became so severe and volatile that she had to move out. She then moved into a flat with her co-worker named Maxine into a flat in Gateshead, but very quickly it became apparent to those around Alice that the reason for these different behavior changes, they were all because of Harry.
He started to become very critical about her appearance and he would start nitpicking little things that he didn't like about the way she looked.
whenever she would go out with friends you know she would get dressed up and do her makeup and all that harry would get very upset he also would start making comments about and start degrading her friends and family probably as a way to isolate her and to try to convince her to stop wanting to be around them then he started going through all of her text messages and all of her social media and anytime she would talk to a guy whether it was a friend or co-worker or whatever
he would accuse her of flirting and of cheating. It got to the point where he went on her Facebook and locked her out of her own account by changing her password, so she had to completely start over and make a whole new profile. He did anything and everything he could in his power to isolate her and make her feel as miserable as possible. And it worked. She became withdrawn.
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Chapter 4: What were the signs of Alice's troubled relationship?
It just wasn't in her nature to drop someone and let them deal with it on their own. It wasn't like her to be rude or mean or disrespectful towards anyone, no matter what they were doing to her. But she started to realize that no matter what she did, he just was not going to change. So instead of responding and trying to get things to calm down, she started ignoring him.
She ignored him and ghosted him, but This didn't do anything. The second that Alice started ignoring him, he started calling Alice's friends and families and trying to beg them to reason with her. Obviously, they knew that he wasn't a good person, so they all told him to leave her alone. They weren't going to help him out with this weird obsession that he has with Alice.
Then Harry started writing her letters where he would write poems, writing about how much he loved her and how much he needed her. They started off like this, but just like the text messages and emails and all of the other pleas that he made, these letters eventually grew to become much more threatening and he would say things like, I am going to make you my wife.
Then he found another way to get back into her social media and hack it and he started reading through all of her messages. So he was able to figure out what she was doing and who she was talking to. By September of 2016, Harry had discovered that Alice had been talking to somebody else. She had started a new relationship with another army officer named Mike.
Alice had actually met Mike when she was in Germany visiting her sister Emma. The two had spent a couple of days together and they really hit it off. According to Alice's then-roommate Maxine, the two got along really well. They had a really nice connection and he really seemed to make her happy.
Obviously, this made him very, very upset, so he started messaging Mike directly to tell him all about how awful Alice is. He told Mike that Alice was still talking to him, so Harry, and telling him that she still loved him and was cheating on him with Harry. But thankfully, Mike already knew about Harry.
He knew that Harry was obsessed with Alice and he was going to do anything in his power to try to get her to come back. He knew that Harry was going out of his way to separate her from anybody in her life who made her happy. So he didn't take anything that Harry said seriously.
The relationship between Alice and Mike continued and Harry continued to stalk her and get more and more upset as time passed. Things continued to escalate from there. One afternoon on September 30th, 2016, he had contacted Alice again. He left her a voicemail pleading with her to get back together with him. Of course, she didn't respond to the call and she just ignored him.
But as we know, he would not take no or a lack of response as an answer. So he got in his car and started the two and a half hour drive from his barracks in Edenburg to Alice's flat in Gateshead. He rang her doorbell several times and then went and hid in the garden so that she wouldn't be able to see him on the doorstep.
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Chapter 5: What actions did Alice take to seek help?
They let her know that they were taking this issue seriously and they reassured her that she was not wasting police time. The officer went on to tell her that if Harry contacted her again that she should go to police straight away. This interaction with the police officer definitely made Alice feel a lot better and she felt a total weight lifted off of her shoulders.
She went on to tell her sister that night that she felt like this could finally be over. The officer also completed a risk offender checklist using this information and they labeled him as a medium risk offender. For those of you who saw my video on Shanna Grice,
This same sort of checklist was done for Michael and he was labeled as a low risk offender, which was absolutely absurd given all of the things that he had done. But in this case, Harry's actions were considered as medium risk, which meant that he did have the potential to cause serious harm. but is unlikely to do so unless circumstances change.
So on October 3rd, 2016, an officer contacted a superior at Harry's barracks in Edenburg and notified them that he was being issued a pin and told them that he was not to have any contact with Alice. Now a P I N or pin does not mean that he will get in trouble. If he contacts Alice again, really it's more so just a verbal warning.
Also, there wasn't an actual officer who actually spoke with Harry directly. Instead, the officer spoke indirectly to one of his supervisors to kind of give all this information to Harry. So this officer explained to the supervisor that if Harry did not comply with the pin, that that is when he would be charged with harassment.
The officer also requested that Harry destroy all of the intimate pictures that he had of Alice. During the meeting with the supervisor, he denied all accusations. He said that Alice blows hot and cold and said that Alice physically abuses him, but in the end, he did agree to stop contacting Alice.
Which, just to pause for a moment, I think it's absurd that police just asked him to delete the photos of Alice. Clearly, his behavior shows that he will say one thing and then do another, so the fact that no one was even there to make sure that he deleted these photos is absolutely ridiculous.
Either way, with everything that happened, neither an officer with the Royal Military Police or the Scotland Police ever actually spoke with Harry directly. These officers also were never informed about the PIN that Harry was being issued, so really to me, all of this just seems like a very quick reminder that he needs to chill with the stalking and harassment, but really...
nothing was actually being done. Unsurprisingly, Harry did not listen and he continued with his obsessive and stalking behavior towards Alice. He started telling people around his barracks that he was feeling very depressed and he felt like he had no one to talk to about the breakup.
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Chapter 6: How did the police respond to Alice's complaints?
Maybe someone should go up to where she was and stay with her to make sure that nothing happened. but by the end of it, they just agreed that they were going to continue to report this and let police deal with it. So anytime something happened, she made sure to notify police right away.
She said that she doesn't know what her next step should be, but she wanted to make sure that she logged absolutely everything. Sue was still hopeful that if Alice just didn't give in, if she just continued to ignore Harry and make it very, very clear to him that he had absolutely no chance, that maybe Harry would stop, but this did not ease Alice's concerns at all.
She had spoken with her sister via text and October 11th, Alice had told her sister that she had just spoken with police, but she said, "'They're not helping me,' They'll effing respond when he's effing stabbed me. Then as all of this was happening on October 10th, Harry had contacted his supervisor in the army, who he was also friends with.
He told the officer that things had gone very bad with Alice, that they've been arguing a lot, and he told him that Alice has gotten physical with him a couple of times. He said that he believed that Alice was purposely trying to set him up to be arrested, but the sergeant could tell that he was frazzled.
and upset, and he reiterated and told him once again to stop contacting Alice and to never talk to her again. Another officer at his barracks threatened disciplinary action if he continued to contact Alice, just like so many other officers had threatened him, but
as it turned out repeated threats of disciplinary action will not stop someone when they're showing this obsessive behavior that they have continued to show the only thing that might have stopped him was oh i don't know actual disciplinary action after it had been threatened one time it's literally just like dealing with a child if you tell a child after they've done something bad that hey next time you're gonna be disciplined for this and then the child goes on to do it again and then you say again
hey, next time you're going to get in trouble. And then the kid does it again. And you say, next time for real, you're going to get in trouble. The kid's just going to keep doing it because eventually they're going to learn that these threats mean nothing.
They're going to learn that no matter how many times you are threatening them, that disciplinary action will be taken, that it won't actually be taken, that it's just a threat. So again, the only thing that might've actually stopped him was disciplinary action. Stop with threats. Stop telling him that, hey, something is going to be done after nothing has been done for the other
you know, several times that you've told him that something will be done. Then that same day on October 10th, once again, Harry had driven the two and a half hours over to Alice's flat. He had been there without Alice's or Maxine's knowledge. He had just gone there to take pictures of the backyard and the windows probably as research to find out the best entry points.
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Chapter 7: What escalation occurred leading up to Alice's murder?
Is the ambulance travelling, Cathy? Please. Please, I need somebody here right now. I know you do. We're getting to you as soon as we can. Okay, just try and stay calm. Try and stay calm. Try and calm down. Try and breathe. You're doing really, really well. You've done the right thing by giving us a ring. Try and breathe. I know it's very difficult. She's having a shock.
She's trying to stay calm. Oh, she's trying. Please help me. I know. How old's Alice? She's only 23. I mean, knew this was coming. Her ex is an absolute psychopath. Say that again, sorry. She put in a complaint about her ex, and she wrote 101 at the weekend to report that you started getting contact, and she says, we're going to do nothing, and now this has happened. Right.
Who tried to contact her at the weekend? No, she contacted 101 because she put in a statement about him two weeks ago. About who? Her ex-boyfriend, Harry Dillon. Right, so have they, she been having problems with her ex? Yes. So do you think that's what it is? Yeah, I can hear the siren. What's he called? Sorry? What's he called, the ex? Harry Dillon. Harry? Dillon. Dillon. Yeah.
In your concern, he might be responsible.
My neighbour's here.
Right, okay. Did you hear any disturbing? Listen, listen. Ask your neighbour. Boys. I actually heard voices. So, yes, I think it's definitely him. Hi. Hi, sorry. Why do you think it's him? Because he was threatening to do bad things to her and stuff. Like, oh, sorry. My neighbour, my mother's flatmate. I can hear the police are coming. Yeah, they're saying they're with you.
I'll wait with you until they're actually with you.
Okay.
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Chapter 8: What was the outcome of Alice's case?
You're doing really well. You're doing really well, Maxine.
It's okay.
Please help us.
I don't know what to do.
otherwise you're there now maxine yes the police are here the police officers there okay um close your phone down for me maxine okay thank you bye when police arrived on the scene they could tell just how brutal this entire thing was unfortunately though there was nothing that they could do because she had already been deceased at this point immediately everyone around alice knew that harry was probably the one responsible for this
So pretty quickly, police found him back at his barracks in Edinburgh, and he was quickly arrested. Of course, he tried to deny knowing anything about Alice's death, but police already knew at this point that he was the one responsible. They had immediately noticed blood on his Help for Heroes bracelet,
He had blood on the steering wheel of his car and he had already been seen on CCTV footage that showed his car driving towards Alice's flat before the murder and then away from her flat after the murder. When her body was sent to the medical examiner, they found that her neck had been stabbed multiple times with such force that it severed her voice box.
her carotid artery, and she had several injuries all the way back to her spinal cord. She also had several cuts and bruises on her nose, back, arms, wrists, hands, and her feet. She also had multiple defensive wounds, which showed that she fought for her life with everything she had. So the trial for Alice's murder took place in April of 2017. Of course, Harry continued to plead not guilty.
His defense said that Alice was actually the one who was the aggressor and said that Harry had killed Alice on accident in self-defense. So, the defense talked about how Alice was still, in fact, Harry's girlfriend and that he had only entered her flat that day to talk to her and to reason with her.
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