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Kieran Rifat has been sentenced to life for the murder of Kelly Stewart in Plaistow.
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A man has been jailed for life after bludgeoning a vulnerable homeless woman to death as she slept on the steps of a church.
Kieran Rifat, of Grange Road, Plaistow, was sentenced at the Old Bailey today (Thursday, February 4) after pleading guilty to murder.
Rifat battered Kelly Stewart with a rock without warning as she lay sleeping in the doorway of Memorial Community Church, Barking Road in the early hours of March 26 last year.
Judge John Hillen, sentencing, said: “This was a sustained assault involving protracted, extreme and gratuitous violence on a homeless, mentally ill and vulnerable woman who was asleep.