A jealous teenager who murdered his pregnant girlfriend has been jailed for life.
Aston Robinson, 18, will serve a minimum of 14 years in prison for strangling Kayleigh-Anne Palmer at his parents' home in Cheltenham.
Robinson showed no emotion as the unanimous verdict was returned by the jury, some of whom were weeping.
Robinson left his 16-year-old girlfriend - who was 24 weeks pregnant - on the floor of his parents' home, in her school uniform.
He then locked the house and headed to a nearby bookmakers to check on a £20 bet.
Kayleigh-Anne, known as Kay to friends, died in hospital three days later after doctors induced the birth of her daughter, who also did not survive.
Robinson later admitted he had punched his girlfriend and wrapped a tartan scarf around her neck in a bid to make her "be quiet".
He attacked her after she asked "how would you like it if I met boys?".
While awaiting trial in prison, Robinson wrote two letters to Kay's distraught mother, Helen Bage.
He described himself as "single forever me" after the death, and used the phrase "lol" - short for laugh out loud.
Robinson, of Humber Road, Cheltenham, was convicted of Kay's murder following a two-week trial at Bristol Crown Court.
A jury found him not guilty of child destruction.
Judge Neil Ford QC, the Recorder of Bristol, sentenced Robinson to life and said he would spend a minimum of 14 years behind bars.
The jury was told Robinson used both hands to pull the scarf tight around Kay's neck for at least 15 to 30 seconds at around midday.
His sister Michaela arrived at their parents' home a short time later and Robinson double bolted the front door to prevent her from gaining entry.
He fled on a borrowed BMX bike.
CCTV images showed Robinson checking a £20 bet, believed to have been made on a horse.
At the same time, paramedics battled to save Kay and her unborn child.
Kay was later taken to hospital but never regained consciousness and the heartbeat of her baby, named Lily-Rose, stopped the following day, on April 3.
Doctors induced labour and Kay, who had been in a relationship with Robinson for 14 months, was pronounced dead on April 5.
In the first letter written from his prison cell to Kay's mother, Robinson said: "I am so sorry for your loss, my loss as well, lost a daughter as well.
"I've lost everything that mattered to me."
He added, in a second: "I was hoping that after I waked up and after my jail sentence I would go back into Kay's arms but God took her away in peace, away from my accusations and controlling behaviour.
"All that because I loved and adored her."
The jury heard Robinson had been abusive to Kay throughout their relationship and punched her in the stomach when she informed him she had missed a period.
"He said 'this will stop you having a baby'," Christopher Quinlan QC, prosecuting, said.
A pathologist found 20 separate injuries to her body, from bruising to her cheek and arms and legs to ligature marks from one side of her neck to the other.
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