Thomas Nutt, who murdered his wife Dawn Walker on their wedding night and stuffed her body into a suitcase, was sentenced to life imprisonment for a minimum of 21 years.
The body of her grandmother, Dawn Walker, 52, was found in a field four days after she married Thomas Nutt last October 27.
Nat, 46, allegedly murdered Mr. Walker hours after his wedding and stored the body in a suitcase.
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He is said to have dumped his suitcase in the bushes behind his home in Shirley Grove, Lightcliffe, near Halifax, West Yorkshire. CCTV footage showed Nat moving suitcases after his wedding.
Nat was convicted of murder after a trial earlier this month and was sentenced today at Bradford Crown Court. .
CCTV caught Nat moving a large suitcase out the back of the house into nearby bushes after the wedding, prompting a police investigation.
Nat had reported his wife missing on October 31, 2021, but when Nat called, her body lay dead in a cupboard at his home. prosecutors at trial said.
At the trial, prosecutor Alistair MacDonald said: There he abandoned her body.
McDonald added: The day of his wedding is one of the happiest times of his life. Sadly, this was not the case for Ms. Walker.
Nat denied her murder, but she pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds that he did not intend to seriously harm Ms. Walker when he killed her.
A 46-year-old woman told detectives: She started screaming so I punched her in the face and put her arm around her neck.
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