Traffic officers left shocked by historical murder confession

A motorist caught drink-driving twice on the same night stunned officers by confessing to a murder more than a quarter of a century ago.

The 52-year-old man was taken to a police station a week ago after `repeatedly` being caught at the wheel while over the legal alcohol limit, they said.

The man, with no previous criminal record, then reportedly admitted to officers he had stabbed to death a 38-year-old woman in November 1991 in the German city of Bonn.

He told the North Rhine-Westphalia state police that as a 26-year-old student, having long had “violent and homicidal fantasies”, he had rung the woman`s doorbell, entered her home, handcuffed her and, when she screamed, repeatedly stabbed her.

Police and prosecutors, after re-opening the file on the unsolved murder, believe details the man gave in his confession suggest he is telling the truth.

An investigation is now underway checking to see whether the man, who now lives in Lower Saxony state, may have committed other crimes.

The man himself had not seemed “entirely clear” why he had spontaneously confessed to the killing, police said.

But he is believed to have told officers that he had “lost hope” as the drink-driving offences would cost him his job.