Daryll Paterson, 36, strangled his girlfriend Louise Aitchison, 33, and then slit her throat at the home they shared in Park Terrace, East Kilbride, on April 28 last year
A man who murdered his partner by strangling her and then slashing her throat has been jailed for life.
Daryll Paterson, 36, has been ordered to spend at least 18 years behind bars after confessing to the murder of his girlfriend Louise Aitchison.
He carried out the brutal attack on the 33-year-old former dental nurse on April 28 last year.
He was arrested after admitting his crime to a friend and his sister, confessing: I ve done something really bad .
Scots monster who strangled girlfriend and slashed her throat in East Kilbride home jailed for life for brutal murder
Daryll Paterson carried out the brutal attack on former dental nurse Louise Aitchison at the home they shared together in East Kilbride, on April 28, last year.
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Darryl Paterson who pled guilty to the murder of his former partner Louise Aitchison (Image: Daily Record)
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