A British judge on Friday sentenced a sexual predator to at least 36 years in prison for the murder of Sabina Nessa, a primary school teacher killed as she walked to meet a friend in London.
Koci Selamaj, from Eastbourne on England's south coast, pleaded guilty to carrying out the premeditated attack on September 17. Closed circuit television images captured the moment the garage worker attacked Nessa from behind and hit her over the head 34 times with a 2-foot-long metal traffic triangle.
Hundreds of people held a candlelight vigil in her memory soon after her death, demanding an end to violence against women. "It is a striking feature of the defendant's case that, clearly deliberately, it is not suggested by him that he had any remorse for what he did to Sabina Nessa," Judge Nigel Sweeney said.Addressing Selamaj, Nessa's parents Abdur Rouf and Azibun Nessa said in a statement:"You had no right to take her away from us in such a cruel way."