The man convicted in the infamous 1996 murder of Canadian teen Rebecca Middleton says he thinks about that murder every day and has vowed to go straight.

And Kirk Orlando Mundy said he had sympathies for the victim?s family and the victim herself but he stopped short of admitting total guilt.

Mundy was jailed for five years in October, 1996 after pleading guilty to being an accessory after the fact.

The Crown accepted a plea from Mundy before Police had completed forensic tests which revealed Mundy?s semen was inside the body of the 17 year old, who was stabbed to death at Ferry Reach after being tortured.

Mundy spoke to after a prison graduation ceremony where he had gained a GED diploma at the second attempt.

Asked about the murder he said: ?I think about it umpteen times. I cannot go back and change it.

?I pray this happened in the future, not the past, and I could make better choices and be actually able to act on it.

?Right now I know better.?

He vowed he would go straight when eventually released.

?My family gives me the extra oomph,? said Mundy as he hugged his seven-year-old son who was with other family members for the ceremony.

?That?s my main encouragement for success.? Mundy, from Pembroke, said he had dropped out of high school early into a life of hanging around the streets and drugs. But he promised when he?s released he will avoid friends who are ?not positive?.

He said sticking by such friends had led him to where he is now. ?I think about it every day, it?s wrong to do. In my mind I have sympathy for the victim?s family and the victim herself.?

Justis Smith, four years Mundy?s junior, had also been charged with the Middleton murder but London?s Privy Council ruled he could not be re-tried after the late Puisne Judge Vincent Meerabux ruled there was no case to answer although the court described his decision as astonishing.

Mundy said he plans to be a horticulturist or go into music when he is eventually released. He was also jailed for 16 years in 1997 for the 1995 armed robbery of a Bank of Butterfield security van during which he carried an imitation firearm.

Mundy, a Jamaican national now in his late 20s, says he is eligible for moving to the Prison Farm but is ?still waiting.?