A taxi driver who murdered mother-of-five Sarah Wellgreen has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years.
Ben Lacomba was found guilty of killing his ex-partner Wellgreen, 46, who disappeared without a trace in October 2018.
Despite extensive searches, her body has never been found.
Lacomba, 39, was convicted of her murder by a crown court jury in October. The pair had split up in 2014 but still lived together at their home in New Ash Green, Kent, at the time of her disappearance.The trial heard how he killed beautician Wellgreen in a “calculated manner designed to avoid detection, to leave no trace” and to “remove her from his life forever”.
The couple met online in 2004, but by the time of her disappearance their relationship was marked by “tensions and problems”, the court heard.
Lacomba said he was asleep in bed on the night of the alleged killing.
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