Police have released bodycam footage of the moment a university forensics student was arrested for murdering a woman after a court heard he had stabbed her to death in a “kill room” copied from US TV show Dexter.
The video shows Benjamin Day, who cut open his hand while attempting to dismember the body of Maria Saceanu, lying to officers after the killing, claiming to have been bitten by a wild dog or a fox.
Day, 20, changed his plea at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Tuesday to admit to murdering the 24-year-old Romanian.
A trial heard his victim, who had been a sex worker, had been lured to a plastic-lined room at an Airbnb in Tividale, in the West Midlands, where she suffered 78 knife wounds.
The court heard Day left the Airbnb at about 12:30 GMT on 21 December, before walking some distance away to call 999 at 12:50 where he asked for medical help.
Footage released by police on Wednesday shows the University of Worcester student near the junction of Highview Street and Brewery Street in Dudley where he is bleeding from his wound.
