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Georgia Williams death: Jamie Reynolds admits murder | Georgia Williams death: Jamie Reynolds admits murder |
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A man who strangled the 17-year-old daughter of a police detective before dumping her body in woodland has pleaded guilty to murder. | |
Georgia Williams went missing from her home in Shropshire on 26 May. Her body was found off the Nant-y-Garth pass near Wrexham four days later. | |
Jamie Reynolds, 23, fled to Scotland after the killing and was later arrested at a hotel in Glasgow. | |
Reynolds, of Wellington, Shropshire, will be sentenced on 19 December. | |
Prosecutor David Crigman told the judge, Mr Justice Wilkie, he would have to view "distressing photographic material" relevant to the case before passing sentence. | |
He said further material relating to photos posted on the internet by other "innocent girls" and examples of extreme pornography also formed part of the evidence. | |
Mr Justice Wilkie remanded Reynolds in custody until 19 December pending further psychiatric reports. | |
He said he would have to consider whether a whole life term was an appropriate sentence. | |
'Caring, kind and generous.' | 'Caring, kind and generous.' |
Miss Williams' father, Stephen, is a detective constable with the West Mercia force. | |
In a statement, he said the guilty plea gave his family "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," he 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." | "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." | 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." |