A British teenage boy who murdered his pregnant girlfriend, then wrote a letter to her mum containing the phrase ‘lol’ (laughing out loud) has been given a life sentence.
18-year-old Aston Robinson is to serve a minimum of 14 years in prison for strangling his girlfriend – Kayleigh-Anne Palmer, who was 16 – at his parents’ home in Cheltenham on April 2.
Robinson left his girlfriend, who was 24 weeks pregnant, frothing at the mouth and blue in the face, then locked the house and headed to a nearby betshop to check on a £20 bet. She died three days later in hospital.