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Killer musician obsessed with Ted Bundy murdered teen after snatching her from bus stop

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A callous killer who snatched a teenage girl from a bus stop before brutally murdering her with a hammer has been jailed for life.

Cody Ackland, 24, will serve at least 30 years behind bars before he is considered for release. The musician, known to be obsessed with serial killer Ted Bundy, spotted student Bobbi-Anne McLeod, 18, close to her home in Leigham, Plymouth, as she waited to catch a bus, The Mirror reports.Ackland, 24, crept up on the teenager and attacked her with a claw hammer multiple times before abducting her in his car.Minutes before he initially appeared, Bobbi-Anne had posted an image of her feet to Snapchat saying how cold she was.In the hours after the murder, Ackland went to band practice, for pizza and for an all-night lock-in party with friends who said they'd never seen him so happy.

Judge Robert Linford said at the sentencing hearing at Plymouth Crown Court today: "She had the whole of her life in front of her until it was brutally and savagely snuffed out by you." Referring to the secluded area Ackland later dumped the teen's body, he added: "I am sure your choice of location was no accident, it was planned."The judge described the killing as "chilling" and "determined savagery"."This was a prolonged, savage and merciless attack.

It caused outrage and fear in this part of country and rightly so. Utterly motiveless," he said.He told Ackland he may never be released and there were shouts from the public gallery as Ackland was taken away.Bobbi-Anne's brother Lee shouted: "You're a dead man."Ackland, who had never been in trouble with the police in his life, was fixated with the notorious American serial killer Bundy and may have wanted to emulate him, police say.Investigators fear Ackland was

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