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- - Lewis Crofts was sentenced at Stafford Crown Court this afternoon for the murder of Kimberley Deakin in Stoke-on-Trent.
- - Crofts, 30 and of Lytchett Drive, Broadstone, pleaded guilty to a charge of murder at a hearing last month at the same court.
- - Police were called to Ms Deakin’s home in Leigh Street, Burslem, on November 6 last year.
- - Ms Deakin, 29 and a mum-of-one, died in hospital a short time later.
- - Judge Kristina Montgomery QC presided over the sentencing hearing today.
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