Ross McCullum says he viewed explicit material to relieve his stress after strangling his victim
By Dan Martin and PA NewsA man accused of murdering his girlfriend laughed in court while describing how he watched pornography in the hours after the killing.He has admitted the manslaughter of 23-year-old Ms Newborough but denies murdering her.'Safety blanket'
Giving evidence under cross-examination on Monday, Mr McCullum was asked about why he had looked at online pornography the morning after the killing on the night of Friday 6 August last year.John Cammegh KC, prosecuting, asked Mr McCullum: "That's what you did at 7am, for some 17 minutes, after killing Megan?""I know how bad it makes me look.""I was trying to answer, but you interrupted me," said Mr McCullum.
The court heard was told he sent text messages and voicemails to Ms Newborough's phone, knowing she was dead, having cut her throat with a knife and used her own car to dump her body in undergrowth a lane near Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire.Mr McCullum, of Windsor Close, Coalville, said: "It relieved the stress of what I had done."I hate myself for that."
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