Search: prayer murder forgiveness
A murderer whose prayers for forgiveness were overheard by police who bugged his car is due to be sentenced to life in prison.
George Maben's "confession" was played to an Old Bailey jury, which found him guilty on Thursday of murdering his girlfriend's wealthy mother.
It was after detectives heard his emotional, whispered words "God, forgive me for what I have done" that they arrested Maben, 45, of Rosehill, Surrey for strangling Maureen Cosgrove, 65.
Unemployed Maben had denied murdering Mrs Cosgrove at her home in Southway, Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, on March 24.
Mrs Cosgrove was asphyxiated with a ligature in the kitchen of her £1 million, five-bedroom home after a visit to the dentist.
Maben was going out with her daughter Lucy Rees, 34, who was expecting his baby.
