Ligus: I am a serial killer'

A SHROPSHIRE MAN confessed to being one of the county's most prolific serial killers during a series of police interviews, a court was told this afternoon. A SHROPSHIRE MAN confessed to being one of the county's most prolific serial killers during a series of police interviews, a court was told this afternoon. Birmingham Crown Court heard Robin Stanislaw Ligus, formerly of Monkmoor, Shrewsbury, made "wholesale confessions" to the murders of Trevor Bradley, Brian Coles and Bernard Czyzewska, who were all found dead within the space of seven months in 1994. He is already serving a life sentence for the murder of 75-year-old Robert Young, of Shrewsbury. At the opening of his trial today, prosecuting counsel Mr James Curtis said there was "compelling evidence" of Ligus's guilt. He told the court Ligus committed all four murders in "something of a series" to get cash to fund a drug addiction. Mr Curtis said Ligus was recorded making the admissions in interviews with police as well as medical, legal and academic parties. Mr Curtis said some of the first confessions were made to a psychology professor who was assessing the risk offenders posed to other people in the prison system. Mr Curtis said Ligus's mental state had only deteriorated in recent years following a stroke in 2006 and his admissions of guilt were made from 2000. [24link] Full story in today's Shropshire Star