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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Pol Allingham

Murderer says he would have killed again but ‘I totally get family’s pain now’

William Dunlop strangled Julie Hogg in 1989 (Cleveland Police/PA) - (PA Media)

The first murderer to be jailed after an amendment to the 800-year-old double jeopardy law has said he would have killed or committed serious violence again, but today “I totally get” the suffering of the victim’s family.

William Dunlop, now 63, strangled Julie Hogg in Billingham, County Durham, in 1989 and hid her mutilated body behind a bath panel.

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