Man pleads guilty to scissors murder of pregnant girlfriend in Hackney

Liam Taylor will be sentenced at later date over killing of Ailish Walsh, 28, in December

A man has pleaded guilty to murdering his pregnant girlfriend with a pair of scissors in what prosecutors called an exceptionally brutal" attack.

Ailish Walsh, 28, was pronounced dead after police were called to her flat in Rectory Road, Hackney, east London, on the evening of 15 December last year. She was found to have more than 40 puncture wounds. Liam Taylor, 37, pleaded guilty to Walsh's murder during a hearing at the Old Bailey on Monday. Walsh had been 22 weeks pregnant.