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Bobbi-Anne McLeod murderer jailed for life

18-year-old Bobbi-Anne McLeod (left) and 24-year-old Cody Ackland (right).

He may never be released

A man has been jailed for life after admitting murdering teenager Bobbi-Anne McLeod

Musician Cody Ackland, 24, from Radcliffe Road, Southway, will serve at least 31 before he can be considered for release.

The judge says there's a possibility he may never be released.

Plymouth Crown Court heard on Thursday how Ms McLeod, 18, was attacked at a bus stop near her home in the Leigham area of the city, before being bundled into McLeod's car and driven to Dartmoor on Saturday 20 November last year.

Ackland, who was not known to police, hit his victim several times on the head with a claw hammer, but she did not die instantly.

He then abducted her into his car and drove her to Believer Forest on Dartmoor, where he continued his assault before she died.

He drove the body to Bovisand and dumped her in overgrowth, before throwing her clothes in an allotment.

He then went out to party with his friends.

Three days later, McLeod handed himself into police and confessed to the murder. He then asked officers for a map and then directed them to where he dumped her remains.

Ackland pleaded guilty to murder on 5 April. That hearing in front of Judge Robert Linford at Plymouth Crown Court heard how Ackland was obsessed with serial killers. Police also found 3,000 images on his phone, many of which were disturbing.

In his summing up, Judge Linford said: "You were quite clearly planning murder and did murder."

"There were effectively four attempts to kill her...this was a prolonged, savage and merciless attack. It caused outrage and fear in this part of country and rightly so. Utterly motiveless."

 

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