A Zimbabwean UK based soldier Josephat Mutekedza(36) was on Friday given  26 years custodial sentence for stabbing Miriam Nyazema 26 times.

Mutekedza was damped by Nyazema, 37, of  Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

She was killed in front of her new boyfriend Jacob Chigombe, a Harare based business tycoon.