A woman who struck her friend 50 times on the head with a claw hammer was today (Thursday) told she will spend the next 16 years in prison without parole.
During a tariff hearing at Belfast Crown Court, Mr Justice O’Hara told 47-year-old Svetlana Svedova that she had “brutally” attacked fellow Latvian national Ludmila Poletelova in her own home and left her for days before her remains were discovered.
Svedova pleaded guilty last December to the murder of the 61-year-old in what the prosecution had described as a “gratuitous and frenzied attack”.
