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| Becky Godden murder: Christopher Halliwell found guilty of killing missing sex worker | Becky Godden murder: Christopher Halliwell found guilty of killing missing sex worker |
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| Convicted killer Christopher Halliwell, 52, has been found guilty at Bristol Crown Court of murdering missing prostitute Becky Godden five years after initially escaping justice due to police blunders. | Convicted killer Christopher Halliwell, 52, has been found guilty at Bristol Crown Court of murdering missing prostitute Becky Godden five years after initially escaping justice due to police blunders. |
| The former taxi driver, who is already serving a life sentence after he admitted stabbing and strangling Sian O'Callaghan in 2011, denied killing Ms Godden in court claiming she had been buried by two drug dealers. | |
| But police told the court Halliwell had confessed to picking up a sex worker from the streets of Swindon between 2003 and 2005, having sex with her then strangling while showing police where Ms O'Callaghan's body was buried. | |
| The body of Ms O'Callaghan, who had gone missing while on a night out with friends in Swindon in 2011, was found semi-naked in undergrowth in Uffington, Oxfordshire after Halliwell took police to the spot. | |
| While in Uffington, the jury heard that Halliwell had told Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher who was leading the investigation that they needed to "have a chat". | |
| The court that Halliwell had told Det Sup Fulcher the "exact spot" where Ms Godden was buried and her remains were subsequently found "hidden in the middle of nowhere" in Eastleach, Gloucestershire. | |
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