THE heartbroken fiance of murdered Leeton schoolteacher Stephanie Scott has admitted to feeling relief after Ms Scott’s killer finally admitted to murder on Wednesday.
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Speaking from Portugal, Aaron Leeson-Woolley said he was relieved justice had edged one step closer.
In the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney, Vincent Stanford pleaded guilty to murder and aggravated sexual assault via audio visual link from Long Bay jail.
It was Easter Sunday when Ms Scott decided to drive to work and to prepare some lessons at Leeton High.
She was at Leeton High School on April 5, 2015, to make sure a relief teacher would have all the resources needed while she was on her honeymoon.
But the bubbly drama and English teacher would never return home.
An email Ms Scott sent at 12.59pm from her school computer to the bus company hired for the wedding was her last known contact.
For days her fiance, Aaron Leeson-Woolley, and her family painfully begged the public for answers, completely stunned and at a complete loss as to Ms Scott's disappearance.
But as police would later discover, someone else was at the school that Easter Sunday - even though he was not rostered on to work.
School cleaner Vincent Stanford, 25, sought out Ms Scott, before sexually assaulting and murdering her.
Court documents show that Stanford bought a training sword, a knife, handcuffs, Viagra and cleaning products online in the lead-up to Ms Scott's murder.
Ms Scott's family showed little emotion as he pleaded.
Ms Scott's mother Merrilyn wore a yellow scarf and her sister Robyn carried a yellow handbag. Yellow was Ms Scott's favourite colour.
The guilty plea comes six weeks after his twin brother Marcus Stanford pleaded guilty at Griffith Local Court to being an accessory after the fact to murder.
Police arrested and charged Stanford days after Ms Scott's disappearance and after discovering he had taken photos of her burnt remains. Ms Scott's blood was also found in his car.
He had dumped her red Mazda in a field just outside Leeton before driving her body to Cocoparra National Park, just north of Griffith where he went on regular camping trips.
Police divers found Ms Scott's school-issued lap top, dumped in a canal. It is understood police used a triangulation based off Stanford's phone to narrow down a search area for Ms Scott's body.
Ms Scott's body was found the night before she was due to be married at Eugowra in front of 100 close family and friends.
Instead of watching his partner of five years walk down the aisle, Mr Leeson-Woolley wore Ms Scott's favourite colour yellow and cried in the middle of a park with hundreds of people who knew and loved his fiancée.
