A man who strangled his teenage girlfriend to death said a “mad feeling” told him “she needed to die”, a court heard.
Kelsey Shaw, 17, was choked by her on-off boyfriend Callum Wilcocks, now aged 23, on the morning of April 29, 2011 after a row about him cheating on her.
Wilcocks, of Hale Drive, Widnes, admits killing Kelsey but claims mental illness means he is only guilty of manslaughter.
Liverpool Crown Court heard a transcript of his police interview, conducted hours after the killing, in which he claimed mum-of-one Kelsey “gave him s***” over an affair he had with her cousin.
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The pair had spent the previous night drinking and snorting cocaine with a friend called Rebecca McDonald at a flat in Foundry Lane, Widnes.
But the following afternoon, when Miss McDonald left to take her baby son to her mother’s house, Wilcocks twice wrapped his arms around Kelsey’s neck, cutting off the blood supply to her brain.
During the interview he admitted attacking her twice, initially only causing her to lose consciousness for a few seconds before letting go.
Callum Wilcocks
The officer conducting the interview asked what happened the second time.
Wilcocks said: “She was giving me s*** again, I just did it, I put my arm around her neck and she just went to sleep.
“I lied her down on the floor, I got a mad feeling in my head like I never felt before, and it said just hold it, just hold her neck.”
The jury heard the second, fatal attack took place after a phone call from Miss McDonald, who said she was back at the flat.
Wilcocks told the officer he grabbed Kelsey from behind, as she walked towards the door to let her friend back in.
He said she lost consciousness but he continued to strangle her until she was dead.
The officer asked what had been going through his mind.
He replied: “I had this mad feeling in my head, she just needed to die, and get out of my life.”
Wilcocks said he tried to resuscitate Kelsey until the police arrived but said he couldn’t remember how to do it because he was “off his head” on cocaine and alcohol.
Kelsey Shaw
He said: “In the end I heard the police sirens, so I unlocked the door, I tried one more time and gave her a kiss, and then I lied on the floor.”
Prior to the incident he claimed the pair had sex and Kelsey told Wilcocks she loved him.
But he claimed she “just switched” and began to bring up his affair again.
Yesterday Wilcocks’ mum, Toni Wilcocks, said her son and Kelsey had a “fiery” on-off relationship and “fought like cat and dog”.
Simon Medland, QC, prosecuting, said the claims that Wilcocks was not responsible for Kelsey’s death due to mental illness were “hollow.”
He said: “These claims are little more than attempts by him to avoid the truth about the dreadful and fatal consequences of his own deliberate acts.”
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