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Christopher Halliwell admits Sian O'Callaghan murder | Christopher Halliwell admits Sian O'Callaghan murder |
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A taxi driver has pleaded guilty to the murder of Sian O'Callaghan who went missing after visiting a nightclub in Swindon in March last year. | A taxi driver has pleaded guilty to the murder of Sian O'Callaghan who went missing after visiting a nightclub in Swindon in March last year. |
Christopher Halliwell, 48, of Ashbury Avenue, stabbed the 22-year-old office worker in the head and neck. | |
Miss O'Callaghan had left the Suju nightclub at 02:53 GMT on 19 March for the short walk to the home she shared with boyfriend Kevin Reape. | |
Her body was later found near the Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire. | |
Bristol Crown Court heard Halliwell had been cruising around Swindon that night deliberately looking for a victim. | |
He had switched off the radio inside his vehicle which allowed colleagues at his taxi company to know where he was. | |
After leaving the nightclub, Miss O'Callaghan walked past the Goddard Arms on High Street in the Old Town area and got into Halliwell's taxi. | |
He drove his victim to Savernake Forest where he killed her. |