Obsessed with Ted Bundy, he murdered Bobbi-Anne. Now he faces life in jail...
Killer shows no remorse
EVIL Cody Ackland, who murdered teenager Bobbi-Anne McLeod, was obsessed with serial killer Ted Bundy, it has been revealed.
The 24-year-old indie musician dumped Bobbi-Anne’s body in woodland after killing her in November.
His fixation with the US serial killer can be reported after Ackland was yesterday sentenced to at least 31 years in prison.
Detective Superintendent Mike West, head of Devon and Cornwall’s major crime investigation
He had an unhealthy fascination with Bundy. There are clear parallels
DET SUPT MIKE WEST ON MURDERER CODY ACKLAND
team, told the Mirror: “He had an unhealthy fascination with Bundy. There are clear parallels because of the sort of individual that Ackland is.
“Thousands of images of postmortems, murder scenes, dismemberment, soiled clothing, people in distress and other serial killers were found on his phone.
“That shows the level of obsession and certainly predilection for looking at those dark and emotive matters on the internet.”
Bundy was sent to the electric chair in 1989 after killing at least 36 young women in the 1970s.
Ann Rule, a Bundy biographer, described him as a “sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human’s pain”.
Ackland snatched 18-year-old Bobbi-Anne from a bus stop in
Leigham, Plymouth. He hit her twice in the head with a claw hammer before bundling her into his car. He then drove the 4ft 11in teen to a car park and killed her.
He said before she died that she told him she was scared, to which he replied pathetically: “So am I.”
Ackland, who worked in a garage, handed himself in to police and confessed days after the killing, once he had disposed of the murder weapon and bloodied clothing.
Like Bundy, detectives say that he had never showed any remorse. He even joked to police, Plymouth crown court heard.
He told detectives he hit BobbiAnne and thought she was dead. But he added: “She started to make a noise and I thought ‘f***ing hell, wow, I mean hats off to her’.” Alison Hernandez, the police and crime commissioner for Devon and Cornwall, said she hopes Ackland is never released.
Bobbi-Anne’s grieving mother Donna had wept throughout the court case as details of her daughter’s horrific ordeal were revealed.