Lidia Pascale: Man who battered prostitute to death before dumping body in wheelie bin is jailed for life

Matthew Cherrington, 32, arranged for Lidia Pascale to visit his home in West Bromwich near Birmingham before he brutally murdered her in a "savage killing"

Lidia Pascale was brutally murdered by Matthew Cherrington

A man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 19 years after battering a prostitute to death in his home before dumping her body in a wheelie bin.
Matthew Cherrington, 32, arranged for Lidia Pascale to visit his home in West Bromwich near Birmingham before he brutally murdered her.
Her body was found dumped in a wheelie bin 16 days after she was seen going into Cherrington's home.
Today, after being unanimously convicted by a jury of battering Ms Pascale to death, he was jailed for life.
Judge Melbourne Inman QC, told the killer: "I'm satisfied you are a very dangerous man and quite capable of extreme, unprovoked violence."
Cherrington had denied any part in what the judge branded "a savage killing", cleaning up his home where the crime took place, and "fabricating a story to blame someone else".

Matthew Cherrington has been jailed for life after he brutally murdered the prostitute in his home

Judge Inman said "overwhelming evidence" led to his conviction after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
He added: "Having killed her, you showed and continue to show no sign of any remorse or regret."
The body of Ms Pascale was found dumped in a bin 16 days after she was last seen going into Cherrington's home on November 19.
Judge Inman said it was clear from text messages between the pair that Cherrington, having earlier bought cocaine, arranged for Ms Pascale to visit.
He added: "You arranged for her to come to your home and Ms Pascale arrived at 10.20pm and was seen to go in by a friend and recorded going inside by a CCTV camera opposite.
"She was never seen alive again.

The murder of Ms Pascale was called a 'savage killing' by the judge

"Between 10.20pm and 10.50pm you murdered her - only you know what happened."
The judge added 26-year-old Ms Pascale was vulnerable, being a little under 5ft tall and slightly built.
A post-mortem examination was unable to conclude how many blows had been inflicted on Ms Pascale, causing catastrophic head injuries.
Judge Inman said: "This was in my judgment an extremely savage killing.
"In her final moments Lidia Pascale must have been aware she was being beaten in such a manner and with such ferocity that she would not survive.

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This was the scene after police found Ms Pascale's body

"You also concealed her body in a rubbish bag so that nobody would know what had become of her."
The judge told Cherrington he had "done everything possible" to conceal his crime, repainting walls spattered with blood, selling her phone for a profit, and cleaning his bathroom "where it appears the majority of violence was used".
Among the items which have never been recovered were Ms Pascale's clothes, a red duvet cover and an unknown murder weapon.
After the killing Cherrington went to a nearby garage and bought cigarettes, with the judge saying he had "no doubt" Ms Pascale's body still lay in the flat.
"You set about clearing up, hid her body in a bin bag and later in the night manhandled her over the rear fence of your property, where blood was found on fence panels, and stuffed her in a wheelie bin," said Judge Inman.
He told Cherrington: "When arrested you were wholly contemptuous of police in answers and you later fabricated the story to blame someone else."
The judge said that without the meticulous police investigation which resulted in Ms Pascale's body being discovered, the family of the Romanian-born woman would "never have known what happened to her".