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Georgia Williams death: Jamie Reynolds admits murder | Georgia Williams death: Jamie Reynolds admits murder |
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A man has admitted murdering Georgia Williams, the 17-year-old daughter of a police detective. | A man has admitted murdering Georgia Williams, the 17-year-old daughter of a police detective. |
Georgia went missing from her home in Wellington on 26 May. Her body was found in woodland off the Nant-y-Garth pass near Wrexham four days later. | |
Post-mortem tests revealed she died of pressure being applied to her neck. | Post-mortem tests revealed she died of pressure being applied to her neck. |
Jamie Reynolds, 22, of Avondale Road, Wellington, Shropshire, pleaded guilty to murder at Stafford Crown Court. He will be sentenced on 19 December. | Jamie Reynolds, 22, of Avondale Road, Wellington, Shropshire, pleaded guilty to murder at Stafford Crown Court. He will be sentenced on 19 December. |
Miss Williams' father, Stephen, is a detective constable with the West Mercia force. | Miss Williams' father, Stephen, is a detective constable with the West Mercia force. |
'Caring, kind and generous.' | |
In a statement her family said the guilty plea gave them "no satisfaction" at all. | |
"The pain we feel is as raw now as it was when our beautiful Georgia was taken from us back in May," they said. | |
"We will never ever be able to make any sense of what happened, or why it happened to a young woman as caring, kind and generous as our Georgia." | |
Supt Adrian McGee, from West Mercia Police, said Reynolds' guilty plea was "important" to spare Miss Williams' family from "the further trauma of a full trial." | |
He said: "We know the plea does nothing to ease their pain but hopefully it will help them begin to move forward with their lives once sentence is passed." |