Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 17:09:14 +0100
Killer had been booted out of Britain three times
Fiend snuck back in to country to murder ex
By STAFF REPORTER
Published: Today Thu, 03 Nov 2011
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AN illegal immigrant who murdered his ex-girlfriend had already been booted out of Britain THREE TIMES.
Yonas Beraki was jailed for life yesterday after he admitted killing his former partner, Genet Kidane, 41, by pushing her off a main road footbridge in January.
Obsessed Beraki, 33, had been deported back to his native Eritrea three times before, but was able to sneak back into the country by hiding in a lorry to carry out his threat to murder his ex.
Chillingly, Beraki had told Genet where and how he planned to kill her.
But despite her begging police for help, he pushed her off the 25ft bridge as she walked to work - before throwing himself off behind her.
She was discovered lying in the road in Coventry, West Mids, by her horrified daughter, 22.
The court was told that Genet, also an Eritrean national, had been living in the UK legally since 2005.
Prosecutor Emma Cutts said: "Ms Kidane had been put in fear for her life on a number of occasions.
"On one occasion he (Beraki) had been in contact and threatened to kill her.
"She subsequently provided a witness statement, in which she disclosed he
had said he would come behind her, push her and kill her.
"He said when he had killed her, he was not going to live. She even told
police about the very bridge she fell to her death from."
Beraki's suicide attempt was not successful.
The pair had been in a relationship for about a year, which ended because of Beraki's drink problems.
Sentencing him to at least 12 years behind bars, Judge Griffiths-Jones said:
"I am satisfied that you became obsessed about and persistently disturbed
her.
"You were deported from this country, but you came back, in my judgement, to
pursue your obsession of not accepting the end of the relationship.
"When you came back, you quickly came back to Coventry and to where you knew
she was living.
"Your obsessive knowledge about her routine meant you knew where and when
she would be going to work, and you foreshadowed by what you had said to her
that you would kill her in the way you eventually did.
"I have come to the conclusion that because of the end of the relationship
you had decided she would die because if you couldn't have her, she wouldn't
have a life of her own."
Scene ... bridge where Younas Beraki pushed Genet Kidane to her death
Scene ... bridge where Younas Beraki pushed Genet Kidane to her death
SWNS Tragic ... Genet KidaneJailed ... Younas Beraki
Jailed ... Younas Beraki
SWNS Tragic ... Genet Kidane
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