Jordan McSweeney is sentenced to a minimum of 38 years for the sexual assault and murder of Zara Aleena, 35, in Ilford. Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb says she found no mitigation, apart from McSweeney's guilty plea. Live: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602 and YouTube
To read more on this story, you can click on our main article below. He will serve at least 38 years for the murder of Zara Aleena, judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb says. She says she had found no mitigation, apart from McSweeney's guilty plea.
She that for the sexual assault alone he would be sentenced to six years' imprisonment, but has yet to rule on what his actual minimum sentence will be.The judge says that while McSweeney had the physical advantages of strength and surprise,"in everything else she was better than him"."Spending her evening with her friend, she had done nothing wrong, taken no misstep, shown no lack of sense.
The judge says the victim was left with 46 separate injuries, including blunt force trauma to head and genital injuries. The judge continues that after the attack, McSweeney showed"no cares, no regrets, no contrition" and an"utter disrespect for the situation he was in".After listening to the defence arguments, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb says"nothing could begin to justify" the attack on Zara Aleena.
Zara Aleena was a"complete stranger" and had"values and character entirely the opposite of his", the judge says. The judge then describes how McSweeney targeted multiple women over the course of the night. "The woman may well have realised he was following her because wisely she entered a shop and showed her wariness by looking backwards towards the doorway."Now that the defence and prosecution have made their arguments, the judge has left the courtroom to consider the sentence for Jordan McSweeney.
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