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Thomas Turner Gets Life for Murder of Mandy Riley in Derby

A 28-year minimum term now makes a prison death likely for the 64-year-old.

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.