How a Killer Pretended to 'Find' Friend's Body Hours after Murdering Him

A university student who murdered his housemate in a “carefully planned and cold-blooded execution” has been jailed for a minimum of 28 years.

Zack Coughlan, 23, dressed all in black and wore a ski mask and gloves to ambush robotics student Jamie Collins, 21, in the garden of their home in Filton, South Gloucester, on April 8.

Bristol Crown Court heard Mr Collins was stabbed 30 times before Coughlan left him dying in the alleyway, then cycled away on his bike to dispose of bloodstained clothing and the knife used in the attack.

Coughlan had denied murder but changed his plea to guilty ahead of the jury retiring to consider their verdict in the case, after the trial judge ruled the defence of manslaughter by loss of control was not applicable.

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