Murderer David Mitchell today confessed to the murder of paedophile Robert Hind.
Hind disappeared from a hostel in Dewsbury earlier this year prompting police to appeal for the public to help find the missing sex offender.
Hind, 46, vanished from the address in north Kirklees and CCTV from Huddersfield's bus station revealed to police that he knew Mitchell.
Officers warned the public to be wary of the paedophile, known as Dack.
However the investigation quickly switched to a murder investigation with police searching Huddersfield Narrow Canal in Milnsbridge.
The found Hind's body and concluded he had died from being strangled and also suffered severe head inuries.
Mitchell, of Manchester Road, Cowlersley, was quickly arrested and, despite not entering pleas at previous court hearings, admitted the murder today.
However the Examiner can reveal that Mitchell had only recently been released from prison.
He was sentenced to life for the killing of his then girlfriend in 1991.
At the time Leeds Crown Court heard how Mitchell, then 23, had killed Kathleen McKenzie by tying her arms and legs together before drowning her in a half-filled bath at the home the pair shared in Westgate, Almondbury.
The body of Miss McKenzie, then aged 28, was later found under a work bench in the cellar of the house.
It was hidden behind a board which had stones pushed against it and which had been sprayed with perfume.
Prosecutors said that as well as being drowned Miss McKenzie also had 22 other separate injuries on her body.
Mitchell's evil deed only came to light when he told a woman he had killed his partner because she had been unfaithful to him.
That woman persuaded Mitchell, who had fled to Scarborough, to hand himself in.
However, it was later revealed that Mitchell had battered his partner through their relationship and at one point due to the violence she had moved out and into a women's refuge before returning to him just a month before her death.
The court case heard how it was Mitchell who was being unfaithful and told his lover that he could kill Miss McKenzie and "shove her down the cellar."
He denied that he meant to kill her, instead telling police he was drunk and jealous and did not mean to kill her.
Mitchell said he had lost his temper and killed her in the spur of the moment.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment - but his name hit the headline again when he absconded from an open prison 20 years into his sentence.
Mitchell, then 44, left Kirkham Prison in Lancashire in 2012 to go to a work placement but failed to turn up.
He was arrested days later in Huddersfield.
It is understood he was freed a few months later.
Mitchell will be sentenced for the murder of Robert Hind in August.
Huddersfield killer David Mitchell admits murdering paedophile Robert Hind - click here to read
Robert Hind: police say sex offender died from strangulation and head injuries after remains found in Milnsbridge - click here to read
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