London, March 09: A British man has been jailed for at least 22 years for murdering his ex-girlfriend after he saw a picture of her on the internet with another man.
Paul Bristol, 25, stabbed Camille Mathurasingh to death when he saw her on social networking site Facebook with a new lover, Sky News reported.
Bristol flew 4,000 miles (6,437kms) from Trinidad to London, where he confronted his former lover about her new relationship with Besim Haxhia.
He stabbed the 27-year-old 20 times at her home in east London, before cutting himself and crashing her car.
The IT technician, who worked for the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Administration, rejected the charge of murder, claiming he committed manslaughter through provocation.
Judge Timothy Pontius described Bristol as being “eaten up by jealousy.”
He said, “you attacked her with such repeated savagery and horrifying ferocity that it was your intention to kill her.”
Pontius described Mathurasingh as someone “who would not want in any way to hurt his feelings and was very concerned to let him down gently.”
—Agencies