Turkish man breaks down, confesses to rape and murder of 4-yr-old girl on live TV

Viewers of a Turkish television show were in for a shock, as one of the guests confessed to murdering and raping a four-year-old girl to the host.

According to a report in Daily Mail, Himmet Akturk made the chilling revelation on a Turkish show which investigates family drama and had invited him for a episode on Irmak Kupal, a 4-year-old child that went missing in the Alasehir district of western Turkey's Manisa Province.

The show presenter Muge Anli, hosts the show that looks into family dramas and invites everybody related to a particular case and grills them questions.

Anli kept asking Akturk tough questions and subjected him to intense questioning until he finally cracked and confessed to his horrible crime.

The police was called in immediately and Akturk was arrested. He later made an elaborate confession to the cops, giving them details of how he sexually assaulted and killed Irmak Kupal.

He told the police that he strangled Irmak and buried her body in a vineyard, after he had raped her. The police started looking for the body at the location given by Akturk and found the remains of the girl and collected hair and samples of remnant blood for the investigation.

People from Alasehir district were shocked by the news and the local mayor hit out at the accused for the grisly rape and murder.

'This is a very bad incident for Alasehir. I can't even call human the person who did this,' the Mayor Gokhan Karabocan said.

The footage from the television show was used against Akturk in court, however the court is yet to pronounce his sentence.