Overview
- The life sentence handed down Tuesday at Lincoln Crown Court sets a 28-year minimum term.
- A jury at Loughborough Crown Court convicted Turner of murder after he denied killing Mandy Riley.
- Prosecutors said he stabbed Riley 11 times in the neck in her Normanton flat then stole cash for drink and drugs.
- Investigators tied him to the crime through DNA on her purse and a crack pipe and through CCTV of spending and clothes washing.
- Riley’s family said the loss cut deep, noting she never met her first grandson.