Suspected Bromsgrove serial killer confessed after child porn probe, new book claims

Apr 4 2011 by Ben Goldby, Sunday Mercury

SUSPECTED serial killer Russell Williams only confessed to two murders when cops dropped child porn charges against him, it was claimed last night.

The former Air Force Colonel, originally from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, was found with sick computer images when Canadian police arrested him over the killings.

But prosecutors did not lay charges because that would have been a “deal-breaker” in persuading him to plead guilty, a new book has claimed.

Williams, 46, went on to confess to being a double murderer and rapist, a burglar, lingerie thief and a cross-dressing fetishist.

But possession of child porn was too loathsome for him to admit, according to A New Kind of Monster, written by a Canadian journalist who covered his trial in Ontario last year.

In interviews with detectives, Williams is said to have asked himself why he raped and killed women – but could never come up with an answer.

According to investigators, he kept a log of all of his crimes on his computer, along with downloaded snaps of underage girls.

“This was not just one or two images, and it was the one thing he could not admit to,” the book says. “He would plead guilty to everything else, but not to that.

“Technically, he could not be classed as a paedophile despite the child porn found on his computer, because his sexual interests were much wider than that.”

Williams is serving life in jail for murdering former colleague Corporal Marie-France Comeau, 37, and Jessica Lloyd, 27. He also admitted two rapes and 82 burglaries. But police across Canada have reopened cold case files to look again at eight unsolved murders and 48 sex crimes dating back to the 1980s.

The book claims Williams told prosecutors he wanted to avoid legal representation at a full trial, as he feared more details of his double life would emerge.

The killer was a highly decorated member of the Canadian Air Force and flew high-profile dignitaries into the country.

In 2005 Williams flew to London to transport the Queen and Prince Philip to Canada for an official visit, marking the 100th anniversary of Alberta.

He was arrested last spring after cops pulled his car over while carrying out routine inquiries into Comeau’s death.