Fiance `owned up to killing Lennie'

From the archive, first published Thursday 9th Feb 2006.

The fiancee of the man on trial for the murder of wheeler-dealer Lennie Fulbirg has told a jury he confessed the crime to her.

Carrie Webster, 25, said she and Graham Haylett were messing about in Rectory Park, Thornhill, when he owned up to the killing.

"He said they had met him at McDonalds and taken him to Brid and given him a good hiding," she told Leeds Crown Court yesterday.

Miss Webster said Haylett confided in her after she asked him: "Have you ever killed someone?" and he replied: "Yes".

She claimed Haylett described his victim as a really good friend of his who was going out with Tracey Cameron.

Haylett and Cameron, a mother-of-three, deny murdering Mr Fulbirg, chopping him up and dumping his remains on Oxenhope Moor above Keighley.

Miss Webster said she began an affair with Haylett in June 2003 while he was living with Cameron in Dunsford Avenue, Bierley, Bradford.

She told how he moved in with her that autumn. Haylett was arrested at her home on suspicion of murder on June 23, 2004.

Two days later Miss Webster made a statement to the police saying that Haylett had confessed the killing to her.

Haylett was released from custody but re-arrested on April 11 last year and held in prison on remand.

Miss Webster told the court she was wearing his engagement ring at that time and they exchanged letters and phone calls. She was also visiting him in prison.

In July last year she visited a solicitor and retracted her police statement.

She made a new statement saying she implicated Haylett in the murder because she had discovered he was seeing Cameron behind her back.

She said police officers showed her sexually explicit photos of Cameron taken by Haylett.

"I felt I had been completely humiliated as this affair had been going on for six to 12 months behind my back," she said in her new statement.

Miss Webster told Haylett's barrister, Tom Bayliss, she felt really hurt when she discovered that the former lovers were still seeing one another.

He put to her: "You are unsure of his feelings for her and her feelings for him, aren't you?"

Miss Webster replied: "Yes".

Love letters exchanged between Haylett and Miss Webster while he was in prison were read to the court.

In one Haylett denies any involvement in the killing, saying `I am innocent of this'.

The trial continues.

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