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19/10/2012
Taxi Driver Pleads Guilty To Murder Of Sian O'Callaghan
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.
48-year-old Christopher Halliwell, of Ashbury Avenue, sexually assaulted the 22-year-old office worker and stabbed her in the head and neck.
Miss O'Callaghan had left the Suju nightclub at 02:53 on 19 March for the short journey home.
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 Sian to Savernake Forest, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, where he killed her
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.
Sentencing will be handed down at a later date.
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48-year-old Christopher Halliwell, of Ashbury Avenue, sexually assaulted the 22-year-old office worker and stabbed her in the head and neck.
Miss O'Callaghan had left the Suju nightclub at 02:53 on 19 March for the short journey home.
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 Sian to Savernake Forest, near Marlborough in Wiltshire, where he killed her
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.
Sentencing will be handed down at a later date.
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