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12/12/2014
Life Sentence For Claire Tiltman Murderer
Colin Ash-Smith has been sentenced to life for the murder of 16-year-old Claire Tiltman in 1993.
Ash-Smith was already serving three life sentences for attacks on two other women when he was charged with the murder of the Kent schoolgirl.
Claire Tiltman was found stabbed to death in an alleyway in Greenhithe, four days after her sixteenth birthday.
It is understood Ash-Smith was not in court for his sentencing.
(MH/CD)
Ash-Smith was already serving three life sentences for attacks on two other women when he was charged with the murder of the Kent schoolgirl.
Claire Tiltman was found stabbed to death in an alleyway in Greenhithe, four days after her sixteenth birthday.
It is understood Ash-Smith was not in court for his sentencing.
(MH/CD)
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