Murdered newlywed's father in court

A security firm boss who has admitted killing his newlywed daughter weeks after giving her away at her wedding will officially enter a plea in court on Wednesday.

Terry Rodgers disappeared after hairdresser Chanel Taylor was shot dead in her home in Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire, a year ago.

He later went on hunger strike in prison after he was discovered hiding in woodland and arrested over the murder of the 23-year-old.

He appeared in court last month for the first time since his attempts to starve himself to death and his defence barrister said he accepted that he killed his daughter.

Stephen Ferguson said: "First of all, Mr Rodgers accepts in court through me that he killed his daughter as alleged.

"He further accepts that he killed Chanel by shooting her in her home."

Rodgers, who was living with his daughter at the time of the shooting, is charged with her murder on July 30, last year.

She was found shot dead in her home by her new husband Lee, whom she had married just six weeks earlier in Mansfield.

Following the shooting, her father disappeared and was discovered hiding in woodland nearby after a multi-million-pound search by officers from across the country.

He was taken into custody, where he went on hunger strike on Christmas Eve last year and told staff he wished to die "as quietly as possible". Within hours of being read his last rites, he was declared mentally unfit to starve himself to death and sectioned under the Mental Health Act.