A security guard who brutally murdered a Thai conference delegate has been jailed for life and ordered to spend at least 20 years behind bars.
Clive Carter, 35, was convicted of killing 42-year-old Khanokporn Satjawat in Glasgow on November 12 last year.
Ms Satjawat had been attending a conference at the SECC when she was subjected to the “senseless attack” by Carter, in which he bludgeoned her with a fire extinguisher.
Carter had admitted killing the Thai national but denied murder. A jury found him guilty after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
Passing sentence on the same day, judge Lord Matthews said: “Khanokporn Satjawat was a hard-working, well-educated and dedicated lady who came to this country to participate in a conference whose purpose was the alleviation of suffering and the saving of lives.
“It is cruelly ironic that in the course of such an event the life of that fragile lady should be taken in a brutal fashion with an instrument whose primary purpose is also the saving of life, and at the hands of a man to whom she should have been able to look for assistance. You are plainly, on the evidence, a man who is disturbed. However, you are also deeply disturbing as the evidence in this trial has amply demonstrated.”
Lord Matthews pointed to the “grief and sense of loss” suffered by the victim’s elder sister, set out in statements put before the court.
The judge acknowledged Carter’s admission that he killed the delegate but added in a statement released by Judiciary of Scotland: “That acceptance did not go so far as accepting that you murdered her and it is plain that you took significant steps in the immediate aftermath of her death to cover your tracks.
“In light of the jury’s verdict your personality disorder is, in my opinion, of littlerelevance when it comes to sentencing.”
The jail term will date from November 14 last year.