self-confessed

That case, brought before DNA testing was widely available, was enough to convince a jury at Liverpool Crown Court - and on 5 November 1987 he went from a self-confessed "petty thief" to a convicted murderer.

A self-confessed politics nerd as a child, the young Jetten grew up in a small town in the southern province of Brabant and came out when he was young.

His carefully rehearsed lines and bookish glasses earned the self-confessed geek the unwelcome nickname of "Robot Jetten" in his early career.

As a self-confessed Traitors superfan, you might have expected Line of Duty actor Mark Bonnar to jump at the chance to appear in the celebrity version.

The self-confessed teenage nerd was dedicated to weird science as a vocation.