Bio

Victor Miller was born in 1956 in the United Kingdom. By the late 1980s, Miller lived in the Penn Fields area of Wolverhampton. He was a computer operator or warehouseman. He was 32 years old when Stuart Gough was murdered.

Before Stuart’s murder, Miller had a history of sexual offending. Police later suspected that he may have been involved in nearly 30 other sexual assaults, but those were not confirmed murder convictions.

Miller was reported to have targeted newspaper delivery boys because they often worked alone early in the morning. Stuart Gough was abducted while completing his newspaper round.

Murder Story

On February 15, 1988, 14-year-old Stuart Gough was delivering newspapers in Hagley, Worcestershire. He was working alone on his paper round when Victor Miller abducted him. Stuart was asthmatic and was still a schoolboy at the time of the attack.

Miller sexually assaulted Stuart and then killed him by striking him with a rock. After the murder, he hid Stuart’s body under leaves in remote woodland. A large police search followed Stuart’s disappearance, using officers, detectives, helicopters, dog handlers, mounted police, and underwater search teams.

The investigation changed after Miller was arrested in connection with another assault. After his arrest, he confessed to abducting and killing Stuart and led police to the body. Stuart’s partially clothed body was later found in woodland.

During preliminary court proceedings, Miller wrote to Hereford magistrates. He said he could never make up for taking Stuart from his family and asked for justice to be done. The Express & Star reported that he asked to receive the maximum sentence available.

Miller was sentenced to life imprisonment in November 1988. Public records from that period state that the trial judge recommended he serve at least 30 years before parole could be considered. Later sources report that Miller asked to remain in prison for the rest of his life.