A Turkish man is facing life in prison after going on TV to protest his innocence in the murder of a young mother of two who was his former girlfriend and getting such a tough grilling by the host he had to confess afterwards to the cops that he was guilty.

Arzu Aygun, 36, was the mother of these two young children who was living with them in the district of Atakum in the Turkish province of Samsun, when she disappeared shortly before Christmas last year.

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Aygun’s estranged boyfriend, Muharrem Coskun, 38, who had been quizzed about her disappearance but released, had gone on the TV show as well but after tough questioning decided the game was up, and after leaving the studio went to the prosecutor’s office and admitted that he killed Arzu.

He had reportedly been insanely jealous of her and said that after killing the mother of two with a gun, he had dragged her body in a sack to his car and then after buying some beers, are driven to a forest 71 kilometres (44.117 miles) where he hid the body.

Arzu had apparently had some inkling that her boyfriend might have something planned that she had written instead of his name the words “Beware, danger” alongside his number in her cell phone contacts.

Some local news websites and social media users claimed that Arzu had complained to police about Coskun nine times before. However, there was no confirmation from the police on this issue.

The date of Coskun’s first hearing, at which the prosecutor sought an aggravated life sentence, has not yet been set.