A failed Iranian asylum seeker – who battered his teenage girlfriend with a hammer before strangling her – failed in his final appeal to remain in the UK the day before.
Ako Khalid, 19, of High Street, Barkingside pleaded guilty to murdering student Cheryl Tariah, 17, (pictured) at his hostel on February 7.
He was sentenced at the Old Bailey to life imprisonment – with a recommendation he serve ten-and-a-half years.
Khalid claimed he lost his temper after Cheryl confessed to cheating on him with another man.
Police were called shortly before 4.00pm, following reports of a disturbance at a flat along the high street.
Officers attended and discovered the body of Cheryl, from Chelmsford, Essex.
A post-mortem examination gave cause of death as compression of the neck.
Khalid boasted to a pal he had repeatedly struck Cheryl with a hammer, before strangling her.
He was arrested three days later at Dover, trying to smuggle himself out of the country, clinging to the underside of a lorry.
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