David Harker, 51, bragged about murdering mother-of-four Julie Paterson and eating her remains with cheese and a bowl of pasta.
A convicted killer who bragged about eating parts of his victim with a bowl of pasta has been denied parole for the ninth time.
David Harker, 51, killed mother-of-four Julie Paterson, 32, in Darlington in 1998. To this day only some of her remains have been found.
Harker is currently serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to manslaughter on diminished responsibility grounds.
It later emerged that he had told both friends and a psychiatrist that he fried part of Paterson’s thigh and eaten it with pasta and cheese after killing her.
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