GUILTY UK - Megan Newborough, 23, raped, found dead on country lane, Leicestershire, 7 August 2021 *arrest*

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Man, 29, admits killing 23-year-old HR advisor whose body was found in a country lane | Daily Mail Online

"A man has today admitted killing a vicar's granddaughter but denied murdering her.

Ross McCullam, 29, is accused of murdering Megan Newborough, 23, on Friday August 6.

The body of the 23-year-old was found in a country road in Woodhouse Eaves, near Loughborough the day after her family reported her missing.

The HR advisor, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, was reported missing the previous day after she failed to return home following an online date.

Appearing via video-link from HMP Leicester on Friday, McCullam denied murder and pleaded guilty to an alternative offence of manslaughter, on the grounds of diminished responsibility and loss of control."

Wow the prosecution didn’t accept the manslaughter plea and it goes to trial …….. this at the bottom of that link …….
Judge Timothy Spencer QC told McCullam: 'Through your plea this morning you have admitted a very serious matter and a very serous offence.

'The prosecution do not accept that the case is a manslaughter case.

'They say it's a murder case - the jury will have to decide and your trial will take place on March 7th.'

 

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Good.

 

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I really hope they don’t let him off with a manslaughter sentence. He’s definitely highly culpable and tried to cover up the murder.
Also does anyone find it strange how there’s no pictures of McCullam? Not even court drawings…

 

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Man charged with murder of Megan Newborough appears in court

Ross McCullam's trial was due to start on Monday but has now been put back to July

www.leicestermercury.co.uk

 

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Man charged with murder of Megan Newborough appears in court

Ross McCullam's trial was due to start on Monday but has now been put back to July

www.leicestermercury.co.uk

I’m confused. When is the trial? It says July but I’m pretty sure it was put back again to October but I can’t find anything online. Can someone help?

 

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Trial starts tomorrow

1 November 10:30.

 

[AcbMurders]

7 weeks!

 

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Lab worker strangled colleague and then staged ‘cunning’ cover-up, court told

 

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He says a "loss of control" or abnormality of mind means he's only guilty of manslaughter.


The court heard he had told police in an interview that he became agitated when Ms Newborough attempted to touch him intimately.

He claimed that when he told her to get off she slapped him, at which he lost control of himself and started to strangle her.”
https://news.sky.com/story/man-who-strangled-woman-he-met-at-work-a-cunning-and-resourceful-murderer-court-told-12735670

 

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He says a "loss of control" or abnormality of mind means he's only guilty of manslaughter.


The court heard he had told police in an interview that he became agitated when Ms Newborough attempted to touch him intimately.

He claimed that when he told her to get off she slapped him, at which he lost control of himself and started to strangle her.”
https://news.sky.com/story/man-who-strangled-woman-he-met-at-work-a-cunning-and-resourceful-murderer-court-told-12735670

Deary me.

 

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Deary me.

What’s your take away from this?

 

[Legally Bland]

What’s your take away from this?

He's lying, how about you?

 

[Legally Bland]

I've just read the Sky link, I didn't realise this happened at RM's parent's home.

 

[bluetit]

He's lying, how about you?

Hmm, I think you might be on to something there
It’s the most ridiculous and unfair lie ever. She was described in other news reports as being “nothing but patient, understanding and kind”. It’s all so disgusting.

 

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I've just read the Sky link, I didn't realise this happened at RM's parent's home.

Apparently they will be witnesses to the prosecution.

 

[Luwin]

Megan Newborough: Man strangled woman before cover-up, court hears

Ross McCullum admits Megan Newborough's manslaughter but denies murdering the 23-year-old.

www.google.com

Ms Newborough's body was found in the early hours of 8 August and her bloodstained car was located in a leisure centre car park in Loughborough, where the jury was told Mr McCullum had abandoned it.
Mr Cammegh told the jury Mr McCullum had been diagnosed with ADHD but had stopped taking medication for the condition in the weeks leading up to Ms Newborough's death.
The court was read some of the thousands of messages the defendant and victim exchanged before Ms Newborough died.
Messages showed they had arranged to meet on the weekend of Ms Newborough's death and the jury was told in the days leading up to the meeting Mr McCullum's texts took on "an increasingly obsessive sexualised tone".
Mr Cammegh said: "From time to time Ross McCullum just can't help himself from descending into vulgarity and banter that you may think is demeaning and disrespectful."

 

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Man cut colleague's throat before covering his tracks, court hears

Ross McCullum, 30, is accused of killing Megan Newborough before dumping her body in a country lane and staging a cover-up, Leicester Crown Court heard today

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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Man cut colleague's throat before covering his tracks, court hears

Ross McCullum, 30, is accused of killing Megan Newborough before dumping her body in a country lane and staging a cover-up, Leicester Crown Court heard today

www.dailymail.co.uk

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The pair met in June last year at Leicestershire-based company Ibstock Brick, where she worked in human resources, the court heard.

The court heard that McCullum had not been in an 'emotional or sexual' relationship for around eight years, with his last one 'hampered by difficulties with erectile dysfunction.'

Opening the prosecution's case on Tuesday, John Cammegh KC said the pair had exchanged flirtatious messages during the previous weeks before the alleged murder took place.”

 

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The pair met in June last year at Leicestershire-based company Ibstock Brick, where she worked in human resources, the court heard.

The court heard that McCullum had not been in an 'emotional or sexual' relationship for around eight years, with his last one 'hampered by difficulties with erectile dysfunction.'

Opening the prosecution's case on Tuesday, John Cammegh KC said the pair had exchanged flirtatious messages during the previous weeks before the alleged murder took place.”

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During the prosecution’s opening speech, the jury was told “inappropriate” behaviour by McCullum was noticed by his workplace boss on August 5 and 6. Mr Cammegh said the killer, a former labourer and cleaner, had joined Ibstock’s laboratory around 18 months before.

On the day of the killing, the manager “became troubled by the defendant’s increasingly juvenile behaviour”, which included throwing clay around the room, the court heard

Lab worker strangled colleague and then staged `cunning´ cover-up,...

 

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Sorry to keep posting so much but all the information appears to be fragmented across so many articles, this other one goes into great detail.

Megan Newborough murder trial told killer staged cunning cover up

The 23-year-old was fatally attacked in the house that Ross McCullum shared with his parents in Coalville

www.leicestermercury.co.uk