THE heartbroken fiance of Leeton school teacher Stephanie Scott admitted he was a "little bit" relieved by the guilty plea entered on Wednesday.
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Aaron Leeson-Woolley, who is in Portugal, said he had been informed Vincent Stanford had pleaded guilty to murder via a message from family back in Australia.
He said he planned to return to Leeton at some point.
Vincent Stanford pleaded guilty to murdering Stephanie Scott on Wednesday.
It was Easter Sunday when teacher and bride-to-be decided to drive to work and to prepare some lessons at school in Leeton in the state's Riverina region.
The excited 26-year-old was readying herself to marry the love of her life the following Saturday.
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, 24, sought out Ms Scott, before sexually assaulting and murdering her.
In the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney last Wednesday, Stanford pleaded guilty to murder six weeks after his twin brother Marcus Stanford pleaded guilty at Griffith Local Court to being an accessory after the fact to murder.
