Our thanks to Steve for this. The end of the article takes up the remainder of this blog piece:

“The judge said on Friday the killer had “decided to concoct a lie and stage a scene”.

She said that if Pugh had called the emergency services sooner, Mr Pugh might have lived.

But instead, the judge said, she had been “composed enough to tell persuasive and cohesive lies about what had happened”.

She said those lies had been “cynical and cruel” and they had caused Kyle Pugh’s family “significant additional suffering”.

“His family have had to endure repeated investigation and examination of his body and a significant delay to putting their loved one to rest,” she added.

Describing the fatal attack, the judge said: “You struck Kyle Pugh with such force that his nose and eye socket were broken.

“And then you compressed his neck, using either a chokehold or your forearm against his windpipe.”

She said: “You restricted the blood flow to his brain, he slipped into unconsciousness and suffered a cardiac arrest.”

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