A teenager who killed his girlfriend while their baby daughter slept beside them was today convicted of murder.
Jurors took just two hours and 15 minutes to find Nigel Diakite guilty of strangling to death young mum N'Taya Elliott-Cleverley. In the aftermath of her killing, he appeared to confess - only to later claim: "If it was me, it was somebody who used me, it wasn't me."
The then 19-year-old killer said he couldn't remember any attack, or making a confession, and blamed his mental health problems. But prosecutors said his "assertion of amnesia" was a "convenience" and accused him of putting on an "act" for jurors.
