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A man who fatally stabbed his partner following a row at their home in Glasgow has been jailed for life. | A man who fatally stabbed his partner following a row at their home in Glasgow has been jailed for life. |
Shazad Javed, 24, plunged a knife into Victorja Surgontaite's back after she criticised him in front of his friends. | Shazad Javed, 24, plunged a knife into Victorja Surgontaite's back after she criticised him in front of his friends. |
He was convicted of murdering the 22-year-old Lithuanian, who managed to tell a friend what had happened. | He was convicted of murdering the 22-year-old Lithuanian, who managed to tell a friend what had happened. |
At the High Court in Glasgow Javed was ordered to spend at least 15 years and eight months in prison before being eligible for parole. | At the High Court in Glasgow Javed was ordered to spend at least 15 years and eight months in prison before being eligible for parole. |
The court heard how Javed snapped when Ms Surgontaite, who was the mother of his two-month-old child, criticised him in front of his friends during his birthday party at their flat in Glasgow in May last year. | |
While a friend waited in a taxi, Javed stabbed Ms Surgontaite in the back before picking up his bags and leaving the house in Clarkston Road. | |
Your daughter has been left without her mother to bring her up and this had been brought about by your wickedness Temporary judge John Beckett QC | |
Ms Surgontaite managed to alert a friend, 24-year-old Jolanta Navickaita, who had been asleep upstairs. | |
She told her that Javed had knifed her in the back. | |
Ms Surgontaite died from her injuries five days later in hospital. | |
Throughout his trial Javed denied the murder and claimed he had an alibi, but a jury found him guilty of murder. | |
Passing sentence, temporary judge John Beckett QC said Javed had stabbed his partner in the back and then left her to die. | |
"You took the life of a young woman who was the mother of your child, who was only two months old at the time," he told Javed. | |
"This was a wicked thing to do. Your daughter has been left without her mother to bring her up and this had been brought about by your wickedness." | |
Judge Beckett recommended that Javed be deported at the end of his prison sentence. | |
The court heard how the couple's baby was now being cared for by Ms Surgontaite's aunt in Lithuania. |
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