Karen Buckley’s murderer previously stood trial for attempted rape

They raised the alarm after she failed to return home from a nightclub in Glasgow’s west end in April this year.

CCTV footage captured them walking along Dumbarton Road and Pacteau then drove with her in his auto to nearby Kelvin Way.

It was further outlined to the court that, over the next 12 minutes, Pacteau grabbed Ms Buckley by the neck and struck her on the head at least 12 or 13 times with a spanner.

Her body was found days later at a farm on the outskirts of the city.

Pacteau was charged with Miss Buckley’s murder and appeared in court on April 17.

The next day, the couple held each other as they visited tributes to the popular student at her university and wept as they joined hundreds of people in George Square for a vigil.

Pacteau was found cleaning the hall and stairwell when his flatmate returned home that night.

In the early hours of the next morning, Pacteau ditched the spanner used to kill Karen in the Forth and Clyde canal.

Pacteau then made his first journey to High Craigton Farm, where he had rented a storage unit during a previous job selling fireworks.

Mr Farrell says there are some similarities to the Buckley case.

He put the barrel in one of the units, covered with a sheet and obscured by a bike wheel and a paper shredder which he placed on top of it.

The complainer had told the court that the pair had decided to get a taxi together and had walked up a laneway near Baliol Street in the city, where she alleged Pacteau had tried to sexually assault her.

Alexander Pacteau is charged and actually has been arrested for the murder of Karen Buckley, but prior he was also faced with another control of striving to disappointment the winds of fairness and that’s seldomly upon the complaint until the legal procedure.

As he opened the door to the police Pacteau said “I was just coming to see you”, Mr Mulholland told the court.

The Glasgow-based TV station also report that during the trial Pacteau claimed he suffered from depression and was sometimes “frightened to leave the house”.

During a search, police found a Poundstretcher receipt for a series of chemicals and padlock keys in the 21-year-old’s pockets.

He said that his client’s recollection was that “shortly after setting off, he and Karen Buckley began to argue…”

He told police Ms Buckley had fallen and injured herself on the bed frame but said he did not notice she had been bleeding until the following morning.

When he was detained by police, officers recovered a hand-written note containing the account of what he had earlier told police.

They called the police the next day, who used CCTV footage to trace Pacteau.

After he moved the body to his flat in Dorchester Avenue, he then travelled to the B&Q store to buy caustic soda in an effort to dissolve her body.

He said Pacteau accepted his actions in trying to dispose of Miss Buckley’s body were “despicable and beneath contempt”.

John Scullion, defending, said his client had been drinking heavily and had a “limited recollection” of events and was unable to offer a “rational explanation” for his actions.

The lawyer said: “He has instructed me to convey on his behalf an apology to Karen Buckley’s family and friends but he understands that such words are unlikely to give any comfort to them”.