Postman Mark Nicholls bludgeoned Emily Sanderson to death at his home in Sheffield, a court hears.
The last moments of a woman who was bludgeoned to death with a dumbbell were played in court as her killer was jailed for life.
The judge told a sentencing hearing the defendant committed a "ferociously violent and sustained attack on a defenceless and vulnerable woman". A series of thuds was heard in the recording, before the call handler hung up, seemingly unaware of the attack.Officers who raided Nicholls' house five days later found her body in a downstairs bedroom wrapped "akin to a parcel" in several layers of packaging paper, Judge Richardson said.
In a statement read in court on behalf of her family, Ms Sanderson's mother, Christine Shann, said: "The manner in which she was taken will haunt us together." The court heard that the day after the murder, Nicholls and a female companion travelled by train from Sheffield to Malton, North Yorkshire, where they drank in two pubs and visited a pizza restaurant.
He said the defendant had been under the influence of alcohol and crack cocaine at the time of the "horrific" murder and "cannot believe he would have intended to kill somebody".
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