After a 57-year-old taxi driver, Christopher Halliwell, led investigators to the nude, headless body of a prostitute, Becky Godden, 20, in a field in Eastleach, Gloucestershire in March 2011, he tried to convince authorities that he wasn’t responsible for her brutal murder, reported the Mirror.
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Mr Fulcher had been called by the prosecution to give evidence at Bristol Crown Court during Halliwell’s trial and he told the jury he was now working as a consultant in Somalia.
Jurors were told both Miss O’Callaghan and Miss Godden disappeared from outside nightclubs in Swindon after getting into Halliwell’s taxi.
Her semi-naked body was discovered in undergrowth in Uffington, Oxfordshire, while the remains of Miss Godden were found in Eastleach, Gloucestershire in 2011.
Halliwell, formerly of Ashbury Avenue, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Miss Godden and is representing himself at his trial.
Three years after Godden’s disappearance, Halliwell confessed to kidnapping and killing O’Callaghan, and he received a minimum term of 25 years in prison.
However, Halliwell – who is serving a life sentence for killing Sian O’Callaghan – later confessed to the murder, telling officials that “I am a sick f*****”.
He said Halliwell had told him: “We need to have a chat”. “Is it too late to get help?”
They, along with two other police employees, drove to a second location where Halliwell indicated there was another body and he could show them “the exact spot”.
It is alleged that Halliwell confessed to taking Miss Godden from the streets of Swindon between 2003 and 2005 and strangling her after they had sex.
The taxi driver is alleged to have directed officers to Oxo Bottom field in Eastleach where the skeletal remains of Miss Godden were found.
“He asked me ‘was it the gamekeeper at Ramsbury?'”, Mr Fulcher told the court. “There isn’t a shred of doubt, not even a slither”.
“He told me he had had sex with her and had killed her by strangling her”.
Earlier, Halliwell’s former GP told the court he remembered him complaining about a sore hand when he claimed he had been assaulted by a male passenger.
“In the early hours of the morning on January 3 he had driven to a spot not a million miles away from Eastleach”, the prosecutor said.
It was not immediately made clear what led up to the brutal murder, but Halliwell told officials that after the killing, he stripped the woman of her clothes and buried her remains in a shallow grave.
“I also noted that Mr Halliwell had scratches to his face”.
Some weeks later, Halliwell approached Miss X and they went to a flat near Swindon town centre, where he again paid for a sexual service, Mr Haggan said.
Halliwell also questioned Mr Fulcher’s claim that he had said the grave was five foot deep. The matter was not reported to police.
The court heard that Miss Godden did not make contact with her family on Mother’s Day in 2003, nor on her 21st birthday in April that year.
Speaking from the dock, he asked Miss X “Please take a good look at me and confirm the person you are talking about is me”. But that was what you told me at the time’.
Instead of returning the woman back to her location, Halliwell admitted to strangling her to death.
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“To be honest, I think Becky used to use him for a lift to score and stuff but I think he might have seen a bit more than that and I think it might have done her head in”.
