A controlling former husband has been jailed for life for kidnapping and murdering a woman who was snatched off a street as she walked to work.
Vitalija Baliutaviciene, 29, was last seen being grabbed in Peterborough. Her body was found in a shallow grave in Poland.
Lithuanian Rimas Venclovas, 47, was found guilty of kidnap and murder at the Old Bailey and told he must serve a minimum 20 years.
Judge Mr Justice Fulford told him he had caused misery to Miss Baliutaviciene through domestic violence.
After divorcing him, she started a relationship with another man and he decided to kill her.
He travelled back to Britain from Lithuania after changing his name, his appearance and adapting a camper van to hide her body.
"This was a coldly and carefully-executed murder," the judge said.
He said he had no doubt that Venclovas did not kill her immediately but tortured her by holding her throat so he had power over her, "keeping her between life and death".
The judge said that Venclovas was trapped by satnav, CCTV and mobile phone cell site evidence.
Vitalija Baliutaviciene died in a "carefully-executed murder", the court heard
Miss Baliutaviciene's death followed a violent marriage and physical abuse which carried on after they were divorced, said Maureen Baker QC, prosecuting.
Venclovas was arrested twice by police in Peterborough after attacking her, but absconded to his native Lithuania each time after being given bail.
He then went to elaborate lengths to return to the UK in August last year, undetected, and to kill the woman who had rejected him.
Miss Baker said Miss Baliutaviciene left her home in Burmer Road and was walking to work at 5.15am when her abduction was captured on CCTV.
She said: "It shows her being overpowered and taken away by someone.
"Then she vanished until 30 October when a man picking mushrooms in a field in western Poland came across a shallow grave containing her remains.
"She died suddenly and violently as the result of manual strangulation."
He had tried to strangle her twice in the year before she died.
After he fled to Lithuania and returned on the first occasion, the Crown Prosecution Service decided he would not be charged.
"Subsequent events have called that decision into question," added Miss Baker.
In February last year, he attacked her again and began to strangle her.
Miss Baker told jurors: "He told her she would be buried. He told her her destiny was for her to be killed by him.
"In order to deliver the destiny he had promised Vitalija, to kill her, he had to devise a way of returning to the UK without being detected."