Shropshire killer ‘made up’ confessions, court told
Monday 27th June 2011, 8:04PM BST.
A convicted Shropshire killer told police he made up his confessions about other murders, a court heard today.
Police interviews carried out in 2007 with triple murder suspect Robin Ligus were today read out at Birmingham Crown Court.
The 59-year-old, formerly of Shrewsbury, is standing trial for killing Trevor Bradley, Brian Coles and Bernard Czyzewska, who all died in 1994.
He is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of pensioner Robert Young but has been ruled unfit to plead to the latest charges.
The interviews heard Ligus claim he could not re-member making confessions to a number of murders before adding he made the stories up. The interviews were carried out after Ligus suffered a stroke in 2006.
The trial has previously heard the defendant confessing to two of the murders in a conversation with a prison mate recorded on audio tape in the late 1990s.
He further admitted to a number of murders to psychologist Dr Caroline Logan at around the same time.
Ligus requested a police interview in 2000 explaining that he wanted to “come clean” and confess on record to the murder of Mr Bradley.
Ligus was re-interviewed in 2007 after the case was reopened. He said: “I’ve got no recollections of the confessions or nothing like that. I never committed any murders. I made them all up.”
The trial continues.
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