Murderer made chilling joke about strangling 'like the Simpsons'

The clip shows Adam Barnard, 41, apparently talking to officers after an earlier incident when Tara Kershaw had made allegations that she had been attacked by him.

Adam Barnard (left) and Tara Kershaw (inset) (Image: Facebook/Norfolk Constabulary) The video footage was recorded by police and released after Barnard was convicted of murdering Miss Kershaw at her flat in Great Yarmouth.

In it, he can be heard making an apparent reference to several scenes in US comedy The Simpsons, when Homer chokes his son Bart, saying: “I don’t know, my idea of strangulation is…Aaaarghhhh (with hands shaking) like you see on The Simpsons….with a little voice…Wawwawawa (shaking hands again)."

Barnard's murder trial, which ended on Thursday, heard how Miss Kershaw had made several complaints to police about her boyfriend, who had repeatedly told her he would kill her.

The final incident was the day before her murder, when he was arrested after she told officers he had hit her on the lip.

Police released him from custody shortly before 11pm on January 18, taking no further action.

After stopping to buy alcohol, he went back to the guest house where he and Miss Kershaw both lived and killed her hours later.

Adam Barnard (Image: Norfolk Constabulary) The force also released footage of him confessing to the murder on the morning of January 20, when he approached an officer outside Yarmouth police station.

Adam Barnard being arrested (Image: Norfolk Constabulary) When he arrived the station was closed so he waited outside.

When it opened, he spoke to an officer on the front desk and said: "I needed to speak to you guys," adding: "I know I'm in a whole lot of trouble."

He then went outside for a cigarette. The front desk officer then sent a colleague out, who recorded an emotional Barnard saying: "I think I killed my partner".

The officer then called for other units to go to her home, saying: "I've got a male who is very upset who has just said he may have killed his partner."

Barnard said: "She is dead.

He went onto say: "What the f**k is going on."

Officers told colleagues over the radio that they had "got him in cuffs."

Barnard was told by police he was being arrested "on suspicion of suspected murder" and he would be remanded in custody.