Killer found guilty

A ‘SADISTIC killer’ has been found guilty of murdering young Nuneaton woman Megan Newborough.

Ross Mccullum denied murder but said he killed Megan as he suffered some kind of “flashback” caused by abuse he said he endured during his childhood.

But a jury at Leicester Crown Court took just over an hour and a half to unanimously convict him of the 23-year-old’s murder. It has been reported that the 30-year-old, who was standing to hear the verdict, simply nodded as it was read by the jury’s foreman.

The trial had heard how Mccullum was undone by his own lies, including having earlier told detectives during a police interview that how, not content with strangling her, he waited on his own account for up to ten minutes before fetching a carving knife and cutting her throat.

Also, during the court trial, he laughed when he admitted that he watched porn just a few hours after killing her. He told the court he accessed pornography as “escapism from what I’ve just done”.

The court also heard how he Googled details of serial killers Levi Bellfield, Peter Sutcliffe, and Ian Huntley in the hours after disposing of the body of the much-loved woman.

Mccullum, who did not have a driving licence, loaded Megan’s body into her white Citroen C3 and dumped her partially-clothed body in thick undergrowth off Charley Road, a remote country lane near Woodhouse Eaves and Beacon Hill Country Park.

Earlier, he had discarded her phone and then left her car in the car park of Loughborough College, the court was told.

Members of the jury were shown

CCTV footage of the defendant appearing to dispose of Megan’s boots, spectacles and other personal items, as well as bloody sheets in nearby bins. Megan’s disappearance was initially reported to Warwickshire Police the following afternoon, Saturday, August 7, 2021, after she failed to return home. Her body was found in the early hours of the following day.

Mccullum will now be sentenced for the young woman’s murder.