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Murder accused ‘based confessions on newspaper reports’
Wednesday 6th July 2011, 7:20PM BST.
Robin Stanislaw Ligus
A Shropshire man accused of the murder of three county men made up confessions using information he had read in the Shropshire Star which he had delivered, a court today heard.
Robin Ligus, formerly of Shrewsbury, took part in a series of police interviews in 2009 in connection with the deaths of Trevor Bradley, Brian Coles and Bernard Czyzewska.
The 59-year-old is standing trial at Birmingham Crown Court for murdering the county men in 1994.
He is already serving a life sentence for killing pensioner Robert Young but is unfit to plead to the latest charges.
Transcripts of the interviews were today read out in court. Ligus was heard saying he read the Shropshire Star every night and had it delivered in prison.
When asked why he confessed to the murders in previous police interviews, to medical experts and prison mates, he said he “couldn’t talk about it”. The court had previously heard tapes of Ligus admitting to the murders while talking to prison mate Anthony Murray.
In one interview, Ligus said: “I used to read the Shropshire Star every night and everything I said would have been from the papers.
“Everything I told Murray, every little thing I would have read from the paper. It would have been in my memory. I know for certain I did not kill the bloke in Whitchurch.”
The defendant also claimed he gleaned details of Mr Bradley’s and Mr Czyzewska’s deaths from information in the paper.
The trial continues.
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