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Life for man who murdered tourist
23 April 2003

An American tourist was murdered after accepting shelter from a stranger when she became stranded in London, the Old Bailey heard

Student Alyson Kaplan, 20, spent the night in Robert Noble's hotel room. The next day, her body was found on the bed by cleaners. She had been strangled and her belongings, including a Gucci watch, had been stolen.

Noble, a 28-year-old alcohol and drug abuser of no fixed address, left the Rama Hotel in Victoria, central London, but confessed to the killing - - in January this year - to police in Brighton. He pleaded guilty to murder and was jailed for life.