The first image of the man who yesterday admitted to murdering his girlfriend, who was found with fatal injuries in a Beckenham flat, has been released by police.

David McCorkell, 54, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Monday to the murder of Diane Dyer on July 18.

Police were called to a residential address in Oakwood Avenue shortly after 11pm following concerns for a female occupant.

Officers and the ambulance service attended and found a Diane Dyer, aged 61, who was unresponsive and suffering from head injuries.

She was pronounced dead at the scene. A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head and face.

McCorkell, who had been in a relationship with Dyer for two months, was charged with murder after he was arrested on July 23.

He is due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey on December 18.