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BBC South West house affairs correspondent
BBC News, South West
University of PlymouthA person has been jailed for no less than 27 years for the homicide of his estranged spouse.
Paul Butler, 53, of Stangray Avenue, Plymouth, prior to now pleaded in charge to stabbing to loss of life 48-year-old college lecturer Claire Chick.
Ms Chick was once discovered critically injured in West Hoe Road at the night time of 22 January and died later in health facility.
Judge Robert Linford at Plymouth Crown Court informed Butler it was once “nothing less than sheer murderous brutality”.
Daughters’ grief
Members of Ms Chick’s circle of relatives, together with her then-partner Paul Maxwell, watched as CCTV confirmed Butler’s actions within the hours sooner than the assault, together with the pictures which confirmed her being stabbed via him no less than 23 occasions.
The court docket heard sufferer affect statements from Ms Chick’s daughters Bethany Hancock-Baxter and Lydia Peers.
Bethany described Butler as an “evil man” and informed him jealousy had were given the simpler of him.
She stated: “Let’s be honest, you must have thought if you can’t have her then no one can.
“I reside each day no longer as Bethany, I’m now the girl whose mom was once killed via her husband.”
Lydia, Ms Chick’s youngest daughter, told the court Butler “did not love” her mum.
“Stabbing my mum 23 occasions isn’t love, this is homicide,” she stated.
