A man who brutally stabbed his boss to death and wrote "bully" on her forehead has been jailed for life and ordered to serve at least 28 years by a British court.
David Browning, 52, was found guilty of murder at Hove Crown Court yesterday, the BBC reported today.
He stabbed Jillian Howell in the chest, neck and abdomen, leaving her with 15 stab and slash wounds in October.
Browning had formed an intense attachment to the 46-year-old Brighton university payroll boss, the court was told.
The court was informed that he had gone to her house for dinner and reacted with anger when she rejected him.
Sentencing Browning, Judge Christine Laing said the way in which Browning murdered her was "savage", adding: "This was a sustained attack and the terror and trauma for her in the final few minutes of her life is unimaginable."
She said Browning "defiled" her body by writing the word "bully" on her forehead but added: "Nothing was further from the truth."
She told him: "I am quite satisfied that what led to you killing her was a very ordinary cocktail of human emotions, desire, jealously, frustration and anger."
"I have watched you closely during this trial and you have shown no emotion and little remorse other than for your own situation."
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