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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
National
Rebecca Sherdley

Judge praises dignity of murder victim's family as savage killer caught on CCTV awaits sentence

Savage killer Matthew Farmer faces a life sentence when he returns to court to learn his fate after he was convicted of the murder of his ex-partner.

Ex-doorman Farmer bought a Go Cook paring knife for £1.75 hours before he lay in wait under a large barbecue in her garden and caught Stacey Clay by surprise as she smoked a cigarette near her fence.

Farmer, who was found guilty of her murder after a jury deliberated for just 30 minutes on Thursday, January 20, was filmed in the throes of the bloody and terrifying attack on a CCTV camera Miss Clay had installed for her own safety.

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