Confronted with the evidence, Malcolm Robinson broke down and confessed. He had been running in the park and had seen Ellen Gregory running ahead of him along the riverbank path. He ran up to join her and tried to engage her in conversation, asking if if she wanted to go for a drink but she told him ‘to piss off, you rancid little wanker.’He had an old piece of green nylon rope in his hand, he had found it lying around and intended to put it in a rubbish bin. Enraged by the casually ‘rude dismissal, after all she was only a w***e,’ he had sprinted up after her, looped the rope around her neck and dragged her off the path. He had not, he claimed, intended to kill her, only remonstrate with her for calling him a ‘f*****g little wanker’. It only after discovering she was dead; did he pick
