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Live: Maurice Jones to be sentenced for Bemerton Heath murder

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  • Maurice Jones will be sentenced at Salisbury Crown Court this morning.
  • He killed Tsvetomir Genov outside the SPAR in Gainsborough Close, Bemerton Heath, on August 22 last year.
  • Jones confronted Mr Genov as he was walking his young son back to his mother's flat which belonged to Sinead Hughes, whom Jones was in a relationship with at the time. He stabbed Mr Genov at least ten times.
  • He was found guilty after a two-week trial in June.
  • The starting point of Jones' sentence is 25 years.

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