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| Megan Bills: Ashley Foster found guilty of murder | Megan Bills: Ashley Foster found guilty of murder |
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| A man who strangled a 17-year-old girl and hid her body in a clingfilm-wrapped wardrobe has been found guilty of murder. | A man who strangled a 17-year-old girl and hid her body in a clingfilm-wrapped wardrobe has been found guilty of murder. |
| Ashley Foster, 24, used his shirt as a ligature to strangle Megan Bills and left her body to decompose in a wardrobe for 18 days at an ex-offenders' hostel in the West Midlands. | Ashley Foster, 24, used his shirt as a ligature to strangle Megan Bills and left her body to decompose in a wardrobe for 18 days at an ex-offenders' hostel in the West Midlands. |
| He had been released from prison three days before the killing. | He had been released from prison three days before the killing. |
| Foster admitted preventing Megan's lawful burial but denied murder. | Foster admitted preventing Megan's lawful burial but denied murder. |
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| During his trial, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how Foster told his mother in a letter that he had concealed the homeless teenager's body after accidentally throttling her during consensual sex. | During his trial, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how Foster told his mother in a letter that he had concealed the homeless teenager's body after accidentally throttling her during consensual sex. |
| Examination of Foster's mobile phones showed he had made numerous searches relating to strangulation and schoolgirls in the days after the murder in Brierley Hill on Easter Sunday last year. | Examination of Foster's mobile phones showed he had made numerous searches relating to strangulation and schoolgirls in the days after the murder in Brierley Hill on Easter Sunday last year. |
| Megan's body was found at the New Path of Life hostel in Highgate Road by staff who had inspected Foster's room after reports of a smell, which Foster claimed was from the carpets. | Megan's body was found at the New Path of Life hostel in Highgate Road by staff who had inspected Foster's room after reports of a smell, which Foster claimed was from the carpets. |
| It was wrapped in a curtain inside the wardrobe and was identified through dental records, but was so badly decomposed that a post-mortem examination failed to establish how Megan died. | |
| Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC said: "If the defendant's purpose was to ensure that it would be as difficult as it could possibly be to work out how she died, he certainly achieved that aim. | |
| "The pathologist has said it is simply not possible to say how it is that Megan died." |