Keeley Bunker: Man guilty of murdering childhood friend

A person has been convicted of raping and murdering his childhood friend on the way in which house from celebrating her birthday.

Wesley Streete, 20, had claimed he had “by accident killed” Keeley Bunker throughout intercourse.

Her physique was discovered hidden below branches in a brook in Tamworth, Staffordshire, on 19 September 2019.

Streete was additionally convicted of two additional prices of rape and three counts of sexual assault relating to a few different feminine victims.

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It took a jury at Stafford Crown Courtroom simply over eight hours to convict the previous warehouse packer, who had initially claimed to have left Ms Bunker to stroll house alone after the pair had met up the earlier night time at a Birmingham nightclub.

Ms Bunker was not seen alive once more, and by the next night, searches had been below means involving her household, shut buddies and police.

Streete was taken by police in a marked patrol automobile to retrace their actions, persistently claiming that when he and Ms Bunker parted she was nonetheless alive.

At the moment he instructed officers “I really feel such as you’re blaming me” after they took his telephone as half of the investigation.

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The courtroom heard her physique was found that night by her uncle Jason Brown, who was in a search get together combing a park close to a phone field the place Streete instructed police Ms Bunker and he parted methods.

Mr Brown discovered his niece together with her underwear pulled down over her trainers. The courtroom heard how he set free a “horrendous scream” on the sight.

A autopsy examination discovered she had been strangled and Streete’s DNA was on her physique.

Streete was arrested shortly after and the courtroom heard he modified his account of the occasions not less than 4 occasions.

He instructed prosecutors it was as a result of he was “scared” and “embarrassed” by her demise – a killing, he stated, that occurred throughout intercourse that started with mutual flirting within the park.

“I put my arms round her neck and by accident killed her,” Streete instructed the prosecution. “We had been having intercourse.”

He admitted in courtroom placing the physique “within the pond” and overlaying it up, earlier than going house to sleep.

The courtroom heard he would later return to the scene a number of occasions so as to add extra branches.

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