Man faces life in jail for murder of Fife teenager Hazel North

A man is facing life in jail after he admitted murdering a Fife teenager and burying her body in a park.

John Davis, 26, killed his girlfriend Hazel North at his flat in Kilmarnock in March.

The 19-year-old’s body was found in the town’s Dean Park three weeks after she was reported missing from her home in Dunfermline.

Her disappearance sparked a major police hunt and her family launched a Facebook campaign to try and find her.

The High Court in Glasgow heard the victim had an ‘on-off’ relationship with her killer, who was released from prison for assault shortly before the murder.

Davis will be sentenced on Wednesday.

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