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| Man admits 1992 Nickell killing | Man admits 1992 Nickell killing |
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| A man has pleaded guilty to killing Rachel Nickell, who was stabbed 49 times in front of her young son 16 years ago. | A man has pleaded guilty to killing Rachel Nickell, who was stabbed 49 times in front of her young son 16 years ago. |
| The 23-year-old former model was attacked as she walked with her two-year-old son on Wimbledon Common in south-west London on 15 July 1992. | The 23-year-old former model was attacked as she walked with her two-year-old son on Wimbledon Common in south-west London on 15 July 1992. |
| Broadmoor patient Robert Napper, 42, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. | Broadmoor patient Robert Napper, 42, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. |
| An Old Bailey judge said he would now be held in Broadmoor indefinitely. | An Old Bailey judge said he would now be held in Broadmoor indefinitely. |
| Mr Justice Griffiths Williams said: "You are on any view a very dangerous man. | |
| "You still present a very high risk of sexual homicide which can only be managed in a high security hospital." | |
| Victor Temple QC, prosecuting, said two psychiatrists agreed that at the time of the killing Napper suffered from Asperger's syndrome and paranoid schizophrenia. | |
| Napper was charged after a review of unsolved cases | |
| He said after consultation with police, lawyers and the victim's family it had been decided that it was "proper and appropriate" to accept the plea. | |
| The plea ends one of the most high-profile crimes ever dealt with by the Metropolitan Police. | |
| But questions marks still hang over the original investigation and the missed opportunities to catch Napper, who went on to kill another young mother and her daughter. | |
| Napper was questioned about Ms Nickell's killing in December 1995 but denied involvement. | |
| He had been sent to Broadmoor secure hospital two months earlier for killing Samantha Bissett, 27, and her four-year-old daughter Jazmine in an attack in south London in November 1993. | |
| In 1994, Colin Stagg from Roehampton, south-west London, went on trial for the murder but the case was thrown out after evidence from an undercover policewoman was ruled inadmissible. | |
| Mr Stagg, 45, spent 13 months in custody. This year, he was awarded £706,000 compensation from the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police is expected to make a public apology to him later on Thursday. |