Man handed life term after ‘shock confession’ this year to partner’s 1998 murder
Evening Standard · Matthew Cooper ·
Trevor Dunkley admitted beating mother-of-seven Patricia Lashley to death when police spoke to him as part of a missing person’s inquiry in July.
A 66-year-old who confessed to police that he had beaten his partner to death in 1998 and disposed of her remains months later has been jailed for at least 10 years and 10 months.
Trevor Dunkley made a “shock” admission to the murder of mother-of-seven Particia Lashley on July 7 this year, after officers went to question him as part of a decades-long missing person inquiry.
Dunkley told police “I killed her, I’m sorry” – and went on to describe hiding his victim’s body in the cellar of his then home.
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