Footballer admits murdering girl (From Maldon and Burnham Standard)
Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting MBS to 80360 or you can e-mail us Click here for
details »
Footballer admits murdering girl
12:05pm Friday 7th September 2012 in National News © Press Association 2013
Megan-Leigh Peat died from multiple stab wounds (Bedfordshire Police/PA)
A promising footballer has pleaded guilty to the murder of his 15-year-old girlfriend.
Andrew Hall, 18, admitted stabbing Megan-Leigh Peat multiple times in the head and body at a mutual friend's house.
Megan, from Westoning, Bedfordshire, died at the house in nearby Ampthill at around 1.30am on June 9 from her injuries and severe blood loss.
Hall, who suffered injuries to his hands, was a scholar at Stoke City academy at the time of the murder, and the court heard he was on the brink of signing as a professional player with the club.
Hall will be sentenced at Luton Crown Court later on Friday.
