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EXPLAINED: Murder case solved after 40 years when man walked in to police station and confessed | Rare Historical Photos

A court has heard how stunned police officers listened to a man who walked in off the street and confessed to a murder which took place more than 40 years ago.

John Paul, 61, allegedly walked into Hammersmith Police Station at 9.38am on Wednesday May 5 last year and confessed to the brutal murder of a man in 1980.

Porter and part-time barman Anthony Bird, 42, was found naked with his wrists bound at his flat in Kensington Gardens Square in west London on June 6 1980.

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