The "predatory" uncle of a teenage girl killed with "breath-taking brutality" has been jailed for life for her murder. Shane Mays subjected 16-year-old Louise Smith to "extreme violence and excruciating, overwhelming pain", shattering her skull and leaving her "unrecognisable" in a sexually motivated attack.
Throughout the trial jurors heard distressing evidence about how the married 30-year-old used such devastating force her jawbone was "completely detached from her skull" and her body had been "penetrated".
Mays made a "determined attempt" to destroy the aspiring veterinary nurse's body by returning to it and "building a bonfire" on top of her.
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