Zimbabwean gets life for killing UK teenager

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By Staff Reporter

A ZIMBABWEAN man whose UK visa expired SEVEN years ago was starting a life sentence in England after being sentenced for the "sadistic" murder of a 17-year-old girl.

Mudadiwa Chinyoka, 24, will serve a minimum 20 years after which he will be deported to Zimbabwe.

A Crown Court heard how Chinyoka sexually attacked teenager Gemma Atkinson and then beat her to death before trying to bury her body in his cellar in Doncaster, England.

Chinyoka met Gemma on a blind date arranged through a mutual friend. A couple of days later the teenager was dead after he subjected her to what a judge called a "sadistic" hour-long assault, which included a vicious sexual assault.

Chinyoka who has been using different aliases including posing as his uncle to avoid deportation from the UK, admitted murdering Gemma and a new statutory offence of intentionally assaulting her by penetration.

He had been charged with raping Gemma before killing her but a trial jury was discharged after the prosecution accepted the couple may have had consensual sex just before the fatal attack.

After Chinyoka was jailed for life with a minimum tariff of 20 years, Gemma's father Iyan Atkinson, 43, a lorry driver, said: "If the authorities had done their job properly and deported him my daughter would still be alive today."

Rodney Jameson, prosecuting, said Chinyoka had been living in the South since 1997 before moving to Doncaster this year. He sent Gemma a series of texts and she went with him to his ground-floor flat in Hexthorpe, Doncaster, a short distance from her family home.

In the middle of the night neighbour Rebecca Storey in an upstairs flat heard sexual noises coming from Chinyoka's flat and Gemma resisting and crying.
Jameson said: "She could hear her say 'No, no, no.' "

There was the sound of Chinyoka hitting the teenager as she pleaded with him to stop before a "massive bang" as if she had been hit with something. Another upstairs neighbour, Leanne Langton, heard Chinyoka run a bath, go to the dustbin and then "move something" around the flat.

Jameson said the couple may have had consensual sex before the attacks.
Chinyoka dressed Gemma and dragged her body into the cellar. He went out and bought a spade and began digging a grave.

A pathologist found 48 separate injuries on Gemma's body and said she died from repeated blows to the head and neck. There were cuts on her back and buttocks and internal injuries.

When police arrested Chinyoka he said he had drunk six or seven bottles of strong beer and had consensual sex with Gemma. He fell asleep and woke up to find her dead. He panicked and decided to bury the body.

Charles Garside, for Chinyoka, said the pair had a friendly relationship up to the tragic day in June. He said: "It was a sudden attack carried out on the spur of the moment."

It was unclear what sparked the attack and there was little provocation. He added: "This was a crime born out of drink and temper."

The judge, Justice Crane, told Chinyoka: "It was vicious and cruel. She was a slightly built young woman and must have been helpless in offering no effective resistance."

He added: "You clearly lost your temper. There followed a prolonged and frenzied attack on this young woman despite her cries for help."

Chinyoka will be deported after he has served his sentence and will never legally be allowed into the UK again. The rape charge was allowed to lie on file.

Gemma's mother and father and brother Christopher, 17, were in court to see Chinyoka sentenced. Atkinson said: "We have never even met the bloke. She was only introduced to him a few days before this happened. She agreed to meet him and then this happens. It makes it worse that Chinyoka had been in this country illegally since 1997. He will get a fresh start when he comes out of prison; we have been dealt a life sentence."
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