A wealthy jeweller and his wife who disposed of evidence to help cover up after their jealous son murdered his girlfriend are to be sentenced today.
Elliot Turner, 20, was found guilty by a jury at Winchester Crown Court in May of murdering 17-year-old Emily Longley in his bed after going "absolutely nuts" in a jealous rage.
Sentencing him, Mrs Justice Dobbs said he had "bullied, harassed, threatened and assaulted" Emily to control her as his "trophy" girlfriend.
Emily Longley was killed in a jealous rage after Elliot thought she was seeing other men
And she told him to put away thoughts of "champagne, Bentleys and girls" as she sentenced him to life imprisonment and told him he would serve at least 16 years in jail.
His parents Leigh, 54, and Anita, 51, are to be sentenced today at the same court after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
They helped to cover up the crime by destroying a confession letter from their son and taking away vital evidence after the killing at their home in Bournemouth, Dorset, in May last year.
Their son was also sentenced to nine months, to run concurrently, for perverting the course of justice.
The trial heard that the killing was the culmination of a month of anger and upset over Elliot's suspicions that Emily was "twisting his heart" by seeing other men.
Elliot Turner was told to put away thoughts of "champagne, Bentleys and girls" as he was sentenced
He claimed in court that he acted in self-defence when Emily attacked him and he grabbed her by the throat for five or six seconds and then woke up to find her dead in his bed.
The prosecution said Turner used a pillow to smother Emily and then strangled her after she went back to his house to talk things over following a violent argument that night.
Emily's father, Mark Longley, called Elliot Turner "evil" and said he hoped he would suffer every day in prison.
Miss Turner had come over to the UK from New Zealand to study at college eight months before her murder.