AN ALCOHOLIC who strangled her girlfriend to death with a pink dressing gown cord has been sentenced to life imprisonment for her murder.
Beverley McManus, 47, showed no emotion as she was told she would serve at least 13 years for killing partner Margaret Desmond in a drunken row last August.
Relatives wept from the public gallery as the jury of six men and six women returned the unanimous guilty verdict at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday.
Sentencing McManus, Judge Michael Murphy QC said: "You have to live with what you did that night - you killed the person you professed to love.
"Your alcoholism has ruined the lives of yourself and certainly has caused the death of Margaret Desmond."
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