Jamie Reynolds pleads guilty to murdering Georgia Williams
Jamie Reynolds today pleaded guilty to murdering Telford teenager Georgia Williams.
Jamie Reynolds, 23, pleaded guilty to murder on the first day of his trial at Stafford Crown Court this morning.
The judge warned he could now face spending his full life behind bars.
And he said "extreme" evidence of the case will never be revealed as it could cause the public "untold distress".
Reynolds had previously denied murdering the 17-year-old at his home in Avondale Road, Wellington, on Sunday, May 26 this year.
But in the dock today, he replied "guilty" when the charge was put to him again.
Wearing a dark grey suit, striped shirt and dark purple tie and glasses and spoke only to confirm his name and give his plea.
Throughout the hearing, Reynolds, whose dark curly hair, small goatee beard and moustache were cropped short, sat with his head bowed.
Georgia's parents Steven Williams, a detective constable with West Mercia Police, and his wife Lynnette were joined in court by her older sister Scarlett.
Her parents stared intently at Reynolds as he gave his plea while Scarlett stared straight ahead.
Tears welled up in their eyes as Reynolds confessed to murdering Georgia.
Judge Mr Justice Wilkie said "extensive psychiatric reports" had been carried out on Reynolds and he had to consider if his was an "appropriate case for a full life term".
He adjourned the hearing until December 19 and 20 when Reynolds will be sentenced.
Reynolds will remain in custody until that time and there was no application for bail.
The court heard that evidence against Reynolds included photographic material before and after Georgia's death, images of girls on social networking sites corrupted by the defendant, story lines the defendant had written and extreme pornography.
Judge Justice Wilkie said: "Some details are of such a nature for it to be given wider publicity would cause untold distress."
In a statement following Reynolds' guilty plea, the Williams family said: "The pain we feel is as raw now as it was when our beautiful Georgia was taken from us back in May.
"We will never ever be able to make any sense of what happened, or why it happened to a young woman as caring, kind and generous as our Georgia.
"Today's guilty plea gives us no satisfaction at all; we do not and will never understand the heartbreaking events of earlier this year that changed our lives for ever."
Georgia was last seen at 7.30pm on May 26 after telling her parents she was going to stay with friends.
When she did not return home, a nationwide search was mounted for sightings of Georgia.
Reynolds was arrested at a budget hotel in Glasgow on suspicion of kidnapping her on Thursday, May 30.
He was later arrested on suspicion of murder.
Georgia's body was found in woodland on the Nant-y-Garth pass, in north Wales, near Wrexham, five days after she disappeared.
A post mortem examination showed she had died as a result of pressure being applied to her neck between 8pm and 9pm on May 26.
People in Wellington and the wider Shropshire community were left devastated by the teenager's death and about 800 people turned out to her funeral at All Saints' Church in Wellington on June 14.
The Georgia Williams Trust was launched to continue the teenager's legacy and raise money for other young people to take part in the sort of adventurous activities she loved.
Wristbands printed with the trust slogan Free Your Spirit – Join In and the image of a ferret, after Georgia's nickname, sold out in weeks and a second batch of 10,000 was released.
Georgia was a corporal in the air cadets and a former head girl of Ercall Wood Technology College in Wellington.
At the time of her death she was a member of the student council at New College and part of the match day safety team at AFC Telford United.
See also: Georgia Williams murder: West Mercia Police statement
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