Mere moments after burning his ex-girlfriend’s body, a young killer began sending her mother a series of horrifying text messages.

Details of the text messages sent by Lachlan Young as he sought to convince Debbie McGuire her daughter had died by suicide were detailed in Victoria’s Supreme Court after he pleaded guilty to Hannah McGuire’s murder.

Using Ms McGuire’s phone, the then-21-year-old wrote messages to himself and Debbie as he was driven home by a friend in a heartless effort to cover up her death.

Young strangled Ms McGuire in the bathroom of the Sebastopol home they once shared in the early hours of the morning on April 5 last year during an argument.

Ms McGuire had resolved to end their relationship due to Young’s emotional and physical abuse and had moved back in with her p

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