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| Ben Blakeley guilty of Jayden Parkinson murder | |
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| The "controlling" ex-boyfriend of pregnant teenager Jayden Parkinson has been found guilty of her murder. | The "controlling" ex-boyfriend of pregnant teenager Jayden Parkinson has been found guilty of her murder. |
| Ben Blakeley, from Reading, strangled the 17-year-old and buried her in his uncle's grave in Didcot, Oxfordshire, last December. | |
| Oxford Crown Court heard he had a history of violence and threatened to post naked pictures of Jayden online after their relationship ended. | |
| Blakeley, 22, admitted killing Jayden but denied murder. | |
| During the trial, jurors heard Blakeley and Jayden had their last argument on a footbridge at a disused railway that runs from Didcot towards Upton. | |
| Blakeley, of Christchurch Road, described grabbing Jayden around the throat with both hands a "million" times before and said he thought she was "joking" when she fell to the ground. | |
| He told the court he dug two shallow graves, one in the countryside close to where he strangled her, and the second in the grave of his uncle, Alan Kennedy, at All Saints' churchyard in Didcot. |