Jealous man who murdered ex-girlfriend jailed for life
A man found guilty of killing his girlfriend in a unit has been handed a life sentence.
Joe Atkinson, 25, was jailed for a minimum of 15 years at Leeds Crown Court on Friday after admitting the murder of his 24-year-old former girlfriend, Poppy Devey Waterhouse.
Atkinson pleaded guilty to murdering Miss Waterhouse when he appeared at court last week.
The woman’s body was found at the flat they shared in Leeds in the UK on December 14.
A coroner heard how paramedics were called to the flat ‘in relation to an assault by stabbing’.
The brief inquest hearing heard how a post-mortem examination revealed that Miss Devey Waterhouse died from ‘head and neck trauma’.
Dressed in a blue, crew-necked jumper, the defendant spoke only to confirm his name and to enter his guilty plea to the single charge in front of many members of his own and his victim’s families.
A number of people in court were in tears but no details of the case were given during the hearing.
Atkinson, of The Avenue, Richmond Hill, Leeds, was remanded in custody by the judge, Mr Justice Lavender.
It is understood the defendant and Miss Devey Waterhouse lived together in the flat and that the couple met when they were both studying at Nottingham University.
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