Brian Lewis repeatedly stabbed and then strangled Hayley Jones after a row, in which he said he didn’t intend to kill his girlfriend. He left her for dead in the family home, and her body was found by their children.

According to the court, Lewis was angered when Jones changed her marital status on Facebook from ‘in a relationship’ to ‘single’ after they had gone through some troubles. Lewis apparently told his friends that following this he wanted to ‘kill her before anyone else could have her’. He later rang the police to admit he had committed the crime.

Their relationship had been strained, and with Jones being more and more secretive over her time on Facebook, Lewis seems to have snapped and committed the horrible crime.