Understand
Police release footage showing the arrest of university forensics student Benjamin Day for a Dexter-inspired murder
Overview
Police have released body-worn video footage of the arrest of 20-year-old university forensics student Benjamin Day, who admitted to murdering 24-year-old Maria Saceanu in a plastic-lined 'kill room' at an Airbnb in Tividale. Day inflicted 78 knife wounds on the victim and cut his own hand while attempting to dismember the body, later lying to officers that he had been bitten by a fox. He was arrested at Russells Hall Hospital and faces a mandatory life sentence when he is sentenced on 4 December.
Key points
- Benjamin Day, 20, pleaded guilty at Wolverhampton Crown Court to murdering 24-year-old Maria Saceanu.
- The victim was lured to a plastic-lined Airbnb room in Tividale and suffered 78 knife wounds in an attack inspired by the TV show Dexter.
- Police footage shows Day lying to officers about a hand injury he sustained while attempting to dismember the body, claiming he was bitten by a fox.
- Day was arrested at Dudley's Russells Hall Hospital and is remanded in custody to be sentenced on 4 December facing a mandatory life sentence.