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[1]������� Mr Stamers, you have pleaded guilty to the murder of your partner, Ksenija Vorosilina, and I have accordingly imposed upon you the only sentence for that offence permitted by law, namely one of life imprisonment.�
[3]������� I wish further to make it clear to you and to the public that a minimum term is not the same as a fixed term of imprisonment.� A fixed term of imprisonment may, if the prisoner is of good behaviour, attract remission of 50 per cent of the term imposed by the court.� You on the other hand will receive no remission for any part of the minimum term that I am now about to impose regardless of your behaviour in prison and I hope that, should the media report these sentencing remarks, they will be careful to make this important distinction clear to their readers and viewers.�
[6]������� It is not clear what exactly happened during the hour or so between Ksenija arriving home and her receiving the fatal wounds.� However, both prosecution and defence counsel consider, and I think it likely, that when she arrived home from work she found you there in a drunken condition and that as a result words were exchanged which led to an argument between you and ultimately to your taking a knife from the adjacent kitchen and attacking her with repeated blows from which she fled to the neighbouring house in search of help.� �
[8]������� When you were admitted to hospital blood samples were taken at 20.50 hours which when later analysed revealed a range of between 230 and 279 milligrams of alcohol per 100 ml, a significant degree of intoxication.� This is hardly surprising as, by your own admission, you had been on a drinking binge on the day of the murder and for some days previously.� During that time you had consumed a quantity of vodka and beer.�
[9]������� I have been provided with a moving account by Mariana, the mother of your victim.� It must have been very difficult for her to express her feelings at the loss of her daughter in these terrible circumstances but she has done so in pathetic terms, expressing their mutual love for each other, the pleasure she had taken in their contact by SKYPE, the financial help that her daughter provided for her and the hope that eventually there might be grandchildren.� She summarised her position thus:
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