This is a new defence

From the trial of the suspected killer of Sally Anne Bowman:

"The defendant confesses that he had sex with Sally Anne and that he had sex with her after her death, but he denies he is the killer."

Riiiggghhtt. So his defence is that he had sex with her corpse. That's his defence.

Well, that's a ground breaking way to get the jury onside. You can just picture the defence lawyer, sitting listening to this defence, his head in his hands, wondering whether his case for this defendant could be any weaker.

There are very few occasions when you can say that, innocent or guilty, you want a defendant to rot in hell. In view of this confession, this would be one such case.