A THUG who tortured and murdered his new girlfriend weeks after being bailed to her home has been jailed for 23 years.
Scar-faced Christopher McGowan, 28, battered and strangled Claire Inglis, also 28, before forcing a wet wipe down her throat in.
Judge Michael O’Grady told McGowan at the High Court in Edinburgh his actions were "beyond sadistic" – and the mum-of-one had suffered "nothing short of torture".
He said: “It was difficult to portray the brutality of what you inflicted on her.
“You have shown not a flicker of emotion, distress or remorse.”
Ms Inglis’ family, who attended every day of the trial, wept as McGowan’s life sentence was read out.
The judge said Ms Inglis’ family now faced “the anguish of living without her”.
McGowan was found guilty at the High Court in Stirling last month for the murder in the city in November 2021.
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