Triple killer Kyle Clifford will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being given a whole-life term, the most extreme punishment a judge in the UK can hand out. The murderer, who raped his ex-partner then killed her along with her sister and mum, was among the notorious criminals sent to jail in the UK in March. Other offenders jailed last month include a teenage murderer who plotted a school shooting and a would-be bomber who was talked out of exploding a device inside a hospital by a stranger. A thief who murdered an Amazon delivery driver who was trying to stop him stealing his van and a serial romance fraudster who swindled a woman he met on Tinder out of £50,000 were also jailed. A man who forced his partner to perform sex acts with their pet pug will also spend time behind bars after facing the courts. Others sent to jail in March 2025 include a teenager who stabbed his older sister to death and a former bishop who sexually abused a boy he christened as a baby. Lengthy sentences are handed to some of the worst offenders each month. These are some of the most shocking court cases that have been widely reported in the UK in recent weeks. Richard Jones murdered his son’s girlfriend after wrongly believing she was trying to scam him. The 50-year-old left Sophie Evans, 30, naked on her kitchen floor after beating and strangling her to death in her home. Swansea Crown Court heard the mother-of-two was found dead on July 5 last year at a house in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. The court previously heard how on the day of the attack, Ms Evans had returned home from dropping off her two children at school and was wearing just a towel – having showered – when Jones arrived. After the murder, Jones left the property and then ran errands – ordering a new debit card at the bank and buying a custard slice and sandwich from a bakery. Jones later contacted his ex-partner and told her he had “sorted” the problem he had with Ms Evans – his son Jamie Davies’s girlfriend – and had “erased” it. Jones believed he had been duped into signing a tenancy agreement for Ms Evans’s home and was worried about a housing benefit claim she had made. In psychiatrist interviews after his arrest, Jones said he believed he had been “tricked” out of the deeds for his mother’s house by his son and his partner. Michael Jones KC, prosecuting, told the jury: "Whatever happened in that house when he visited her that morning, cannot be told to us by Sophie Evans. What we do know is that, in her house, that morning, this defendant physically and repeatedly attacked Sophie before strangling her to death." Jones, of Y Rhodfa, Burry Port, admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility, but denied murder. He was convicted of murder by a jury following a trial and sentenced to life with a minimum term of 20 years. A 39-year-old man who forced his partner to have sex with a dog and filmed what they were doing was told by a judge that he “wallowed in a swamp of sexual depravity”. Judge Jeremy Richardson KC said he accepted there was a “level of coercion” when Graham Marshall made Paige Reaney, 33, engage in a range of sex acts with their pet pug, Charlie, but she still retained some culpability for what happened to the “poor, helpless creature”. Judge Richardson told Sheffield Crown Court that the case was "extremely disturbing" as he jailed Marshall for five and a half years and handed Reaney a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for two years. The judge said: “In a professional life in the law covering 45 years, I thought I had encountered most acts of depravity. This case is perhaps the worse example of a case of its kind that I have ever come across.” READ MORE: Man coerced his partner into having sex with pet pug and filmed it The court heard that Marshall’s "perverted" sexual fantasies drove the abuse of the dog at their Sheffield home but Reaney "never refused any of those requests". The judge described how the pair shared images between themselves on TikTok, with Marshall describing these as "so, so, f****** hot". Judge Richardson said a vet concluded that Charlie would have been in distress and pain when he was forced to indulge in the acts, which were outlined in detail in the court. Reaney admitted bestiality and animal cruelty at a previous hearing. Marshall admitted the same charges plus possessing child abuse images, possession of extreme pornography and voyeurism. The judge decided Marshall was a dangerous offender and imposed an extended sentence, with a four-year extended licence period on his release. Two men groomed and raped two girls who were “vulnerable in the extreme”. Romulad Stefan Houphouet, who is now 37, and Absolom Sigiyo, now 41, were found guilty of a number of offences including rape and were jailed at Sheffield Crown Court . The court was told during a five-week trial how the two teenage girls were sexually assaulted several times a week over months in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, more than a decade ago by a gang of men who referred to them as “fresh meat”. Judge Sarah Wright told Ivorian national Houphouet, of Burngreave in Sheffield, and Sigiyo, a Zimbabwean national, of Catcliffe in Rotherham, they inflicted “severe psychological harm” to the girls who are suffering to this day. Judge Wright told the complainants, who watched the sentencing hearing on a video link, they had shown “bravery beyond measure” by reporting the abuse and telling the jury what happened to them when they were vulnerable girls living in a children’s home. The judge told the defendants: “These offences were committed using sophisticated grooming of your victims. They were well planned. You can have been in no doubt that the complainants were vulnerable in the extreme.” The teenagers were groomed by the defendants who plied them with alcohol. “They had no sense of protecting themselves and I am quite sure you, Houphouet and in due course, Sigiyo targeted them because of it," the judge said. Houphouet was jailed for 20 years and Sigiyo for 18 years and six months. The convictions are the latest following the National Crime Agency’s investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, which is called Operation Stovewood. It was set up in the wake of the landmark Jay Report which found in 2014 that at least 1,400 girls were abused by gangs of men of mainly Pakistani heritage in Rotherham between those dates. A husband killed his wife after suffering years of abuse at her hands. Charles Graham, 78, strangled Davinia, 67, his wife of nearly 50 years, in their home in Cheltenham after she threatened to stab him. The retired paramedic snapped and killed her before phoning police to admit what he had done. Bristol Crown Court heard Mrs Graham had suffered with mental health problems for many years and had been abusive to her husband and family. Adam Vaitilingam KC, prosecuting, said Mrs Graham had been admitted to hospital on August 22 last year after taking an overdose. On August 30 doctors determined she was medically fit for discharge, and she was collected by her husband. After an argument between the pair that led to the police being called, Mrs Graham was readmitted but sent home in a taxi hours later. In a 999 call made in the early hours of the following day, Graham explained he had killed his wife, who was known as Dee, after she had threatened him. READ MORE: Husband who killed abusive wife told 999 call handler 'I lost it, that’s all I can say' He told call handlers: "Good morning. I might as well just say it. I’m afraid I killed my wife. I strangled her. She was in hospital for overdosing, and she has got mental health issues, and it happened before more than once. "I was waiting to take her home in the car, and all she did was shout abusively in the street and walk down the middle of the road. I called the police, I tried to track down where she had gone, but she turned up tonight, very aggressive, very abusive, threatening me to stab me, and I sort of, well, I lost it, that’s all I can say." He went on to explain to the call handler that he "started hitting out" before putting his hands around her throat and strangling her. Graham, of Fairfield Road, Cheltenham had denied murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of loss of control. Judge Peter Blair KC, The Recorder of Bristol, jailed Graham for three years. A teenager stabbed his older sister to death after telling her he wanted to practise a headlock on her. Mali Bennett-Smith, 17, told police his sister 19-year-old Luka Bennett-Smith was “annoying” and he wanted to kill her. He was sentenced to a minimum term of detention of 10 years and five months after pleading guilty to her murder at Bristol Crown Court. The court heard that his sister had agreed Bennett-Smith could practise a headlock on her, but instead of letting go when she tapped him, as he had done on previous occasions, he continued to hold her before stabbing her repeatedly at the home they shared in the St Andrews area of the city on October 20 last year. He rang emergency services 20 minutes later, shortly before 6.30pm, and told them: “I stabbed my sister to death.” The court heard that he told operators they had not been having an argument, but he said: “I hated her my whole life and I don’t know, I just didn’t want to ever see her again.” Judge William Hart said: “It’s often said in courtrooms when a child has died: ‘It must be every parent’s worst nightmare’. The horror of the loss of their daughter at the hands of the son they still love is beyond even the worst nightmares.” The judge said the use of a knife, the fact Bennett-Smith “undoubtedly intended to kill” and the brutality were aggravating features. He added: “The scene that met the paramedics on arrival at that house will, I imagine, live with them forever.” Ray Tully KC, defending, said Bennett-Smith has severe dyslexia and dysgraphia and, although he has an above average IQ, was found to have below average “processing speed”. He said the teenager’s “somewhat unconventional” upbringing meant he did not mix with other children his own age, and spent a lot of time gaming. Triple killer Kyle Clifford, who murdered his ex girlfriend and her sister with a crossbow and stabbed their mother to death, was handed a whole-life order meaning he will die behind bars. A judge described him as a “jealous man soaked in self pity, who holds women in utter contempt”, as he handed down the sentence in his absence after he the defendant refused to attend court. Clifford, 26, murdered his ex-partner Louise Hunt, 25, her sister Hannah Hunt, 28, and their mother Carol Hunt, 61, at their home in Bushey on July 9 last year. He was also found guilty of raping Louise before shooting her with the crossbow. Addressing Clifford, the judge told the court: "You first killed her mother Carol, who even on that day showed you nothing but kindness in the moments before you attacked her. You raped and killed Louise who had been as gentle as she could in ending her relationship with you, after your arrogance and anger proved too much for her to stand. Then you murdered Hannah Hunt, who had done nothing to harm you save supporting her little sister.” Speaking about victim impact statements made by Carol Hunt’s husband, BBC racing commentator John Hunt, and their surviving daughter Amy Hunt, the judge said: “They showed a gentle heroism of which you, Kyle Clifford, can only dream.” READ MORE: Kyle Clifford is a 'jealous man who holds women in utter contempt' who will die behind bars READ MORE: BBC commentator John Hunt's tearful message to 'psychopath' Kyle Clifford who slaughtered his family Prosecutors previously said Clifford became “enraged” when Louise ended their 18-month relationship, leading him to “carefully” plan the murders. The court previously heard the murders were fuelled by the “violent misogyny promoted” by Andrew Tate, after it emerged that Clifford searched for the controversial social media influencer’s podcast less than 24 hours before the attacks. Clifford previously pleaded guilty to murdering Louise, Carol and Hannah, and was later convicted of raping Louise in a “violent, sexual act of spite”. He was handed a whole-life term meaning he will never be released. Three brothers were jailed over a pub fight which ended in the death of a “hero” soldier who served in Afghanistan. Mark Barrs, 39, was fatally stabbed during a brawl outside The Old Hat pub in Ealing, west London, last April 6. Midway through his trial, Cleveland McEntee, 40, of Hammersmith, west London, admitted his murder and has now been jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years. His brother Leon Woods, 42, from Ealing, west London, admitted the lesser offence of manslaughter and was jailed for seven years. Third sibling Tron McEntee, 35, of Perivale, north-west London, pleaded guilty to violent disorder and was handed 12 months in custody by Judge Rebecca Trowler KC. In a victim impact statement, Mr Barrs’ grandmother, Christine Blinco, said she was “completely heatbroken” at how her grandson’s life was “brutally” taken away “for no real reason”. She said: “Imagine our hero made it home from Afghanistan to lose his life on a London street, that is torment that I will take to my grave.” The court previously heard that police were called to The Old Hat pub at 7.46pm on the night of the killing. Officers found Mr Barrs lying on the pavement by a white van with a stab wound to the chest and despite the efforts of the emergency services, he was declared dead at 8.49pm. Inquiries found there had been a fight in the courtyard of a nearby pub involving Mr Barrs and at least five others, including the defendants. During the altercation, Cleveland McEntee had produced a knife and stabbed Mr Barrs in the chest. In mitigation, Lewis Power KC read a letter from Cleveland McEntee to the victim’s family saying: “I am truly sorry for the pain I have caused you all.” A former bishop sexually abused a boy he christened as a baby. Anthony Pierce, 84, was bishop of Swansea and Brecon between 1999 and 2008, though the offences date from the late 1980s when he was a parish priest in an area of Swansea. A court heard Pierce sexually abused a boy when he was aged in his late 40s. Swansea Crown Court heard that an investigation was launched in 2023 after a victim disclosed what had happened to a Church in Wales safeguarding officer. It later emerged that a separate allegation of sexual abuse by Pierce had been reported to senior figures in the church in 1993 but was only reported to police in 2010, by which time the victim had died. Pierce pleaded guilty to five counts of indecent assault on a male child under the age of 16 during a hearing in February. Judge Catherine Richards jailed him for four years and one month. The judge told Pierce that he was “trusted and respected” as a vicar by the parishioners of the church. “That trust was misplaced. You abused one of the children of your parish. You had been involved in his life since you christened him,” she said. “Any parent or adult at that time would understandably have trusted that their child was safe with you and you would act in accordance with your professed Christian values. Instead, you began to groom him.” The judge described how Pierce had gone on to be appointed as a bishop, without any consequence for his offending, while his victim was left dealing with the devastating aftermath of what happened to him. She told Pierce: “There is only one person who should have shame for what took place and that is you.” Pierce will be registered as a sex offender indefinitely and barred from working or volunteering with children or vulnerable adults. An “evil” teenager was locked up for life for stabbing 15-year-old Elianne Andam to death in a row over a teddy bear. Hassan Sentamu, 18, had a history of attacking girls and carrying knives before he killed the popular schoolgirl outside the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, south-east London, on September 17 in 2023. The Old Bailey heard that Elianne was an aspiring lawyer and a “hard-working, happy girl” with a “radiant smile”. The judge told the court that the driver for his actions was his “short temper and aggressive tendencies” which combined with his “deliberate decision to carry a knife”. The court had heard that Sentamu lashed out in “white hot” rage and stabbed Elianne with a kitchen knife before school. About 10 days before, Sentamu had split up with Elianne’s friend by text, telling her: “Ur energy is dead I’m not rdy for a relationship…all the best.” The day before the killing, he had seen the girls at the Whitgift Centre where they “teased” him and his ex-girlfriend threw water on him. Seething at the perceived disrespect, he told a friend he could not “let this slide”. The next day, he donned a mask and gloves and armed himself with a kitchen knife before a planned meeting to hand over his ex-girlfriend’s teddy bear in exchange for some of his clothes. Elianne stood up for her friend when Sentamu turned up without the bear and walked off with a bag of his belongings. Sentamu’s ex-girlfriend told the court: “Elianne ran behind him, grabbed the bag and started running and laughing as a joke. It was the type of thing that Elianne would have done. At first I was laughing a bit because it was a joke and then I got scared because then Hassan got mad.” Sentamu chased Elianne and stabbed her repeatedly as she lay on the ground – despite her pleas for him to stop, the court was told. She suffered a fatal 12cm deep stab to the neck and a passing bus driver held her hand and stayed with her as she lay dying in the street. Sentamu, from New Addington, near Croydon, admitted manslaughter but was found guilty of murder and having a blade after a jury rejected his claim that autism affected his ability to exercise self-control. He was jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years. A thief murdered a “hard working” Amazon delivery driver who was trying to stop him stealing his van. Claudiu Carol Kondor, 42, was delivering parcels in Leeds last year when “career criminal” Mark Ross, 32, climbed into his van and started to drive away, a court heard. Determined not to let Ross steal his livelihood, Mr Kondor clung onto the vehicle for half-a-mile as the defendant hit speeds of up to 60mph and swerved from side to side before hitting two parked cars, all in an effort to knock him from the van. Mr Kondor died from head and chest injuries from the second crash, the court heard. Ross pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but denied murdering Mr Kondor, claiming he was unaware of him hanging onto the van and that speed bumps had caused him to lose control of the vehicle. However, a jury found him guilty of murder and Ross was jailed at Leeds Crown Court for a minimum term of 30 years. Sentencing him, judge Mr Justice Goss said: “Claudiu Carol Kondor must have been terrified in the last 45 seconds of his life as you ignored his pleas to stop and drove faster, dragging him along the road, causing him mental and physical suffering.” READ MORE: The 'cruel and callous' career criminal who killed an Amazon driver who tried to stop him stealing van Jurors heard Mr Kondor was delivering parcels for Amazon in the Armley area of Leeds on August 20 last year using his own silver Transit van – which was full of parcels he had collected from an Amazon depot. While he was away from his vehicle delivering a parcel, Ross, who lived nearby and had gone out to buy cannabis, climbed into the driver’s seat and started to drive the van away, the court heard. Mr Kondor tried to stop him by opening the front nearside passenger door of the van and attempting to climb in. The court heard this did not stop Ross driving away, with Mr Kondor hanging onto the moving van through an open door. Witnesses described Mr Kondor’s legs dragging on the ground as he clung onto the inside of the open door, with one woman saying she heard him shouting “Help”. Ross, of Conference Road, Armley, told the jury he had been involved in stealing vans previously, but said he had “never been involved in anything like this before”, adding “I would have stopped the van and run off if I had known he was there”. He was given a concurrent sentence of six months for a separate offence of theft after stealing cashmere jumpers from a lorry. A serial romance fraudster has had more than two years added to his sentence after swindling a woman he met on Tinder out of £50,000. Peter Gray, 35, was jailed for 56 months last year for defrauding four women of about £80,000 by making loan applications in their names. At the time, women said Gray, of Mirfield, West Yorkshire, secretly took photos of their driving licences and bank cards while on dates with them after they had matched with him on dating app Tinder. In March this year, Gray was jailed for a further 28 months at Leeds Crown Court for defrauding an ex-partner and a male friend from his golf club. The court heard both victims came forward after hearing about his previous convictions, with the woman saying she learned the “soul destroying” news from a television report that Gray had fathered a child with another woman while he was in a relationship with her. Judge Ray Singh said Gray had “managed to dupe (the victim) into believing (they) were in a loving relationship” before “she was fleeced to the tune of £50,000”. READ MORE: I thought we were in a loving relationship, then I saw him on TV The court heard the pair matched on Tinder, and over more than two years he asked her for thousands of pounds in loans that were never paid back, took out a car loan and a phone contract in her name and used her credit card without permission. He even borrowed £2,000 from her brother to buy her an engagement ring which was only valued at £35, a judge heard. A victim impact statement from the woman read in court said she thought she had been in a loving relationship with Gray before being approached by his former employer and advised to use Clare’s Law, which gives people the right to ask police for a background check on their partner. The court heard Gray also defrauded a friend from his golf club after asking him for a loan of £25,000, before then taking out a fraudulent loan in his name. In his victim impact statement, the man said: “Peter doesn’t care for anyone or for their lives – he just wants to ruin everyone and to get as much money off people as possible.” Gray, who pleaded guilty to nine counts of fraud, has 12 convictions for 27 offences dating back to 2011, including 14 for acquisitive or dishonesty offences, it was said. Jailing Gray for a further 28 months, Judge Singh told him: “The truth is you are a manipulative serial fraudster, preying in particular upon vulnerable females. Nothing I say or do to you, I’m afraid, is going to make you change.” A teenager, driven by a desire to become a notorious mass murderer, killed three members of his family and was also plotting a school shooting. Nicholas Prosper, 19, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 49 years. Prosper shot his mother Juliana Falcon, 48, and siblings Giselle Prosper, 13, and Kyle Prosper, 16, at the flat the family shared in Luton, Bedfordshire, on September 13 last year, and stabbed his brother more than 100 times. He first killed his mother, leaving a copy of the novel How to Kill Your Family on her legs, before shooting his “terrified” sister as she hid under a table, and then stabbing and shooting his brother. He then hid for just over two hours before flagging down police officers in a nearby street and showing them where he had hidden a loaded shotgun and 33 cartridges near playing fields. The teenager, who had been unable to stay in education or hold down a job, had been planning to carry out a mass shooting at his old primary school. He later told a prison nurse he had wanted to cause “the biggest massacre in the 21st century”. Prosper managed to forge a gun licence and used it to buy a shotgun and 100 cartridges from a legitimate firearms dealer the day before the murders. READ MORE: Truly evil' teen's chilling reason for planning mass shooting at primary school READ MORE: Man who killed his mum and siblings and plotted primary school massacre jailed for life Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told him: "You intended to unleash disaster on the community of Luton. Your plans were intelligent, calculating and selfish. Your ambition was notoriety. You wanted to be known posthumously as the world’s most famous school shooter of the 21st century." He admitted three counts of murder as well as purchasing a shotgun without a certificate, possession of a shotgun with intent to endanger life and possession of a kitchen knife in a public place at an earlier hearing. The judge sentenced him to life with a minimum term of 18 years for possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, 3.5 years for buying the gun and one year for possession of the knife, to run concurrently with his life sentence. A "lone wolf terrorist" was talked out of exploding a pressure cooker bomb in the maternity wing of a hospital by a stranger. Would-be bomber Mohammad Farooq has been jailed for a minimum of 37 years. Farooq's device was modelled on those detonated at the 2013 Boston Marathon but had twice the amount of explosives. He took the device into St James’s Hospital in Leeds in January 2023, but “lost his bottle” after talking to patient Nathan Newby. Prosecutors said the clinical support worker had planned to “kill as many nurses as possible”. Sheffield Crown Court heard how Farooq, now 29, targeted the hospital as his “Plan B” after first travelling to the American base at RAF Menwith Hill, in North Yorkshire, but failing to get in due to the high security. The judge said of Mr Newby: “He’s an extraordinary, ordinary man whose decency and kindness on January 20 2023 prevented an atrocity in a maternity wing of a major British hospital.” The judge told Farooq: “This was deliberately to cause maximum damage to life. But at the end, your courage failed you and the kind thoughtfulness of a passing stranger saved you and those you targeted.” She said: “You were prepared to do the unthinkable. To explode a bomb in a hospital.” READ MORE: Man who wanted to 'kill as many nurses as possible' with hospital bomb jailed for 37 years READ MORE: The 'extraordinary, ordinary' man who talked down a would-be bomber 'prepared to do the unthinkable' Prosecutors told a jury last year how the defendant had become a “self-radicalised lone wolf terrorist”, inspired by the Islamic State group. Although Farooq did not give evidence in his trial, his lawyers claimed he was not motivated by ideology, arguing instead that he worked at the hospital and had a long-running grievance with nurses on his ward. Farooq admitted firearms offences, possessing an explosive substance with intent and having a document likely to be useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism. He was found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism after a trial last year. A drunk bar worker killed a friend in a crash when she was carrying six passengers in her small hatchback. Former boarding school pupil Karla Dodds, 25, who previously survived a fatal crash in which she was a passenger, caused the death by dangerous driving of Truman Hub in November 2022. Newcastle Crown Court heard she had not learned her lesson almost exactly two years after the tragic collision, and while waiting for trial, when she was stopped by police for speeding and was found to be twice over the limit for cannabis. Dodds was convicted of causing her 22-year-old school friend’s death by dangerous driving following the trial. She had finished a shift at a Whitley Bay bar and later went to a nightclub where she claimed to have drunk two glasses of wine and two tequila shots. Dodds then offered to drive friends, including Mr Hub, to a party and crammed six others into her Hyundai i10, with one person in the boot and four on the back seat. READ MORE: 'Who's dead?' - moment drunk barmaid is arrested after killing friend in crash READ MORE: Bartender jailed after drunken crash with seven in hatchback left friend dead Mr Hub stuck his head out of a rear window to feel the wind in his hair shortly before the fatal collision with a lamppost which caused the hatchback to flip over on the A191 near North Tyneside General Hospital. Dodds, from Links Avenue, Whitley Bay, fled the scene leaving Mr Hub fatally injured. When she was arrested a breath test showed she was twice over the legal drink drive limit. Police video showed her repeatedly ask “who’s dead?” when she was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. Judge Thomas said Dodds’ conviction and disqualification for drug driving after the fatal crash were also telling. He said: “Everything about the case shows self-pity rather than true remorse.” He jailed her for 12 years and banned her from driving for 13 years and nine months. Marcin Majerkiewicz has been locked up for a minimum term of 34 years for the murder and dismemberment of a pensioner he sawed into 27 pieces. The 42-year-old, who police say had an obsession with gore and gruesome horror and has a tattoo of slasher-film character Jason from Friday The 13th, bludgeoned Stuart Everett with a hammer at the house they shared in Winton, Salford. The defendant then used a hacksaw to dismember his 67-year-old friend and housemate, described as a jolly, friendly, mild-mannered man. He also flayed the face off Mr Everett’s skull before taking body parts in plastic bags on bus journeys across Salford and Manchester to dump the evidence. Retired civil servant Mr Everett was murdered overnight between March 27 and 28 last year. But police were only alerted after his torso was found by a member of the public at Kersal Dale nature reserve in Salford on April 4. After the initial torso discovery, police launched Operation Harker, finding evidence in 15 crime scenes and human remains at five different sites. READ MORE: Everything the judge told Marcin Majerkiewicz as he locked up body parts killer for life READ MORE: The discovery at the bottom of a reservoir that proved key in a grisly murder investigation Majerkiewicz, a Polish father-of-two, denied responsibility for the killing in March last year, but offered no evidence in his defence. Jurors convicted him of the murder in under two hours of deliberations following a three-week trial at Manchester Crown Court. Trial judge Mr Justice Cavanagh told Majerkiewicz, who made no reaction as he was jailed, it was pre-planned murder for gain, to steal Mr Everett’s money to pay off the killer’s spiralling debts. He said: "You acted in an almost unbelievably cold-blooded and macabre way and showed complete disrespect and contempt for your friend’s remains." A 21-year-old "social misfit" with a "grievance against women" murdered his victim because he "wanted to feel powerful", a court heard. Nasen Saadi, of Croydon, south London, stabbed 34-year-old physical trainer Amie Gray and seriously wounded her friend Leanne Miles as the pair were enjoying a late-night chat next to a small fire at Bournemouth beach on May 24 last year. The defendant, who had been studying criminology at the University of Greenwich, had collected knives and researched locations to carry out the killing and had even asked his course lecturers questions on how to get away with murder. The judge, Mrs Justice Cutts, said Saadi had denied his guilt because he wanted the “notoriety of a trial” and had a “complete lack of remorse”. She said: “The clear evidence is you planned to kill and went to Bournemouth to do so. I am satisfied that you chose Amie Gray and Leanne Miles because you have a grievance against society as a whole and women in particular.” She added: “It seems you have felt humiliated and rejected for any advances you have made towards girls, which has led over time to a deeply suppressed rage towards society and women in particular.” She sentenced Saadi to serve a minimum term of 39 years and 65 days for the murder charge with a concurrent term of 30 years for the attempted murder and 21 months concurrent for a charge of failing to provide his phone pin code to police. In a victim impact statement read to the court, Mrs Gray’s wife, Sian Gray, said the death would “haunt” her forever. She said: "At the age of 36, I should not have to hold my deceased wife’s cold hand, nor should my daughter have to say goodbye and grieve over a coffin." Two brothers have been jailed for raping girls in Rotherham almost two decades ago. Robert Evans, 40, was jailed for 17 years and his brother Mark Evans, 37, has been locked up for 14 years. The brothers were about 21 and 18 years old when they sexually abused teenagers as young as 13 in the South Yorkshire town over a two-year period, raping two of them, Sheffield Crown Court heard. The pair were both found guilty of raping two girls and Mark Evans was convicted of a sexual offence against a third teenager. Referring to one of Robert Evans’s attacks on a 13-year-old girl, Judge David Dixon said he “forcibly and viciously raped her” before laughing at her when she was clearly in pain. The judge said this was “difficult to comprehend”. One of the girls who was attacked by Mark Evans when she was 13 said in a statement read to the court on Friday: “They were predators. They didn’t care about me. I was a commodity in their eyes, a sexual possession.” One of the girls who was raped said in her statement read to the court that she still suffers from severe panic attacks and collapsed when she saw one of the brothers in Rotherham years after, never returning to the town centre. Another of the women said in her statement that she had hoped to go to university but her life chances were taken away “by these people who did these horrid things to me”. The Evans brothers, who appeared for sentencing by videolink from prison, denied the offences but a jury convicted them of two counts of rape each after a two-week trial last year, with Mark Evans also found guilty of sexual activity with a child and assault by penetration. The jury heard the brothers, who had a reputation for violence in Rotherham, intimidated the girls and plied them with drugs and alcohol before luring them to locations where they attacked them. A “depraved and calculating sexual predator” raped a woman and secretly filmed three others in his home. Craig France, 33, would deliberately pursue women in the Peterborough area late at night, before luring them to “after-parties” at his home, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said. Once there, France would ply his victims with drink before committing sexual offences against them, offences which he filmed and photographed. Cambridgeshire Police said that there may be other victims who have yet to be identified. France, of Hammonds Drive, Fengate, Peterborough, admitted at an earlier hearing at Cambridge Crown Court to rape, sexual assault, three counts of voyeurism and exposure. He has been jailed for 10 years and seven months. Police said France targeted young women at nightclubs and took them to his home where he had set up hidden cameras. France recorded himself carrying out sexual acts on some of his victims while they were unconscious or sleeping. His offending came to light in August last year after a woman reported he had raped her two years previously, and she later became aware he had filmed it. The victim had been given a shot of “sambuca” by France, while they were in his garden, and the next thing she knew, she woke up in his bed with no recollection of what had happened, but knew something untoward had taken place, police said. Officers found more than 6,000 images and videos of several unidentified women who were secretly filmed at his home between March 2022 and September 2023. They also found the video which showed the victim being raped by France, while she appeared to be “lifeless”. Detective Constable Em Scates, who investigated, said: “It’s clear France is a depraved and calculating sexual predator and a danger to women.”