Kirk Mundy's contrition over his part in the notorious 1996 murder of Canadian teen Rebecca Middleton means little with her mother.

Mundy said on Wednesday he thinks about that murder every day and has sympathies for the family.

But Cindy Bennett told The Royal Gazette: “Anyone can say whatever they want. I don't know what to make of it, my daughter's dead.

“I don't care what he is saying now, watch your actions when you do them. Don't take someone's life or be there when something's happening like that.”

She said people had to be responsible for their actions.

Mundy had said he wished he could go back and change things and said he would choose carefully who he had as friends in future.

“It doesn't cut it,” said Ms Bennett.

“He didn't say anything really. Did he say he did it or is he saying he is not going to hang around with those people any more? You cannot get into his head.”

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.

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 Puisne Judge Vincent Meerabux ruled there was no case to answer although the court described his decision as astonishing.

Mundy was also jailed for 16 years in 1997 for a 1995 armed robbery.