 Guilty plea ... Gareth Bunce. Picture courtesy of A Current Affair |
A MAN who tied up and strangled a mother of two after visiting her home to make a bondage video has told a court the victim was trying to force him to commit an armed robbery.
Gareth John Bunce has pleaded guilty to murdering Margaret Wagner, 27, at her home near Warrimoo in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, in March 1997.
Giving evidence during sentencing submissions in the NSW Supreme Court, Bunce said he had murdered Miss Wagner after going to her home in order to make a bondage video.
He told the court he became angry when Miss Wagner produced two guns and asked him to hold up a service station.
"If I had an atom bomb I would have blown it up then and there," he said.
Bunce told the court the two then went into a bedroom where he tied Ms Wagner up with ropes before strangling her.
"She was dead when I stopped," he said. "There was no pulse."
Justice Derek Price told Bunce to calm down as he gave his evidence.
At one point he tried to question the crown`s counsel and also stuck up both his middle fingers and yelled out, "Stuff the cops!"
The hearing is continuing.
