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A 61-year-old man who confessed to an unsolved murder more than four decades ago and denied it in court has been jailed for life.
John Paul, who was 19 or 20 at the time, tied up 42-year-old Anthony Bird at the victim’s flat in an upmarket area of Kensington, west London, and ‘mercilessly’ beat him to death with a lump of wood in June 1980.
Mr Bird’s body was found naked and bound by his wrists with planks nearby, while the property appeared to have been ‘ransacked’.
But the case went cold, with no new leads until Paul walked into Hammersmith police station in May 2021 saying he wanted to report a crime.