James Campbell was found guilty by a jury of killing 33-year-old Colette Myers.
A man has been jailed for life after killing his partner with a baseball bat after she returned home from visiting her baby's grave.
Campbell subjected Ms Myers to "regular if not continuous violence" during their relationship, the judge said, and had threatened to dig up the grave of her baby who died of cot death. Sentencing, Mrs Justice Foster said: "From the description of her shocked and heartbroken friends, it's clear that in spite of having had a difficult life, Colette had been a woman capable of great joy and laughter and kindness and generosity.
Mrs Justice Foster told Campbell: "You inflicted those traumatic injuries to her in spite of your denials of causing the injuries. You sought to put the blame on Colette and suggested she was so far gone in drink she had some kind of accident and must have tripped on the ladders on the stairs. The judge also said she was "sure" Ms Myers' body had been moved to make it look as if she had died in her sleep.
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