A binman has been jailed for life for killing his girlfriend with a plastic tray during a drunken lockdown row just days after moving in with her.
Wayne Morris, 47, had been staying with Ruth, 52, at her home in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, during the first coronavirus lockdown last April.
He battered the mother-of-two to death with the plastic tray in a "ferocious" attack not long after moving in with her, but claimed he had no memory of the assault.
Morris moved her body from her kitchen to her bedroom, mopped and tidied up, then after spending a day with his daughter, went on the run to the Isle of Wight where he hid out in a tent.
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