Yes they printed it a couple of days ago but doesn't it seem odd how they left out other details from the CM reports? Like that CB confessed to accidentally killing an ex-gf while drunk? In the Star they say the friend is 'unnamed' but the quotes appear to be from the same friend that CM do name as 'A' (I won't state his full name here) who talks about CB confessing to killing the ex to his then girlfriend.
In the CM article where it talks about these comments CB made about "killing a human faster than an animal", it does only say 'a friend' gave these details but in another of the articles it mentions it again and says that CB only confided these things to the friend after he had gained his confidence. Which is exactly what they quote the friend 'A' as saying in the other article about the ex-gf. Could just be a reporting mix-up but it sounds like it's the same friend that CB made both statements to.
CM also state that it was the testimony of 'A' that initially put CB at the centre of the investigation. Do they therefore mean that it was 'A' who CB apparently confessed to knowing what had happened to MM in 2017? If so, it could mean there are indeed two separate confessions, one to 'A' in 2017 and one to HB in 2008 that perhaps corroborate certain details?
Yes, this could be the friend in the bar 2017. Who we've all wondered for ages about. To confess to at least 2 people we know about, and as they say, it all comes out in the end