A man has been jailed for life for killing his ex-girlfriend, seven years after being acquitted of the crime.
Mario Celaire, 31, was cleared in 2002 of killing Cassandra McDermott, 19, in Norbury, south-east London, in 2001.
Celaire, who now admits manslaughter, received a minimum 23-year sentence at the Old Bailey for trying to murder another former partner, Kara Hoyte, 21.
He was prosecuted again under double jeopardy laws when Ms Hoyte told police Celaire had confessed to the killing.
He was also ordered to serve a minimum of eight years for Ms McDermott's manslaughter, to run concurrently.
The former Maidstone United footballer is the first person in the UK to be convicted of a crime for which he was previously acquitted by a jury.
'No mercy'
The convicted rapist, from Sydenham in south-east London, admitted trying to murder Ms Hoyte in a hammer attack, in February 2007.
Sentencing him, Judge Paul Worsley said Celaire had "showed no mercy" to his two victims.
"You present a very real and continuing danger to young women with whom you enter into a close relationship."
The judge said Celaire had waited until the last minute to plead guilty to see if the evidence of the severely disabled Ms Hoyte would stand up to scrutiny.
Mario Celaire, 31, was cleared in 2002 of killing Cassandra McDermott, 19, in Norbury, south-east London, in 2001.
Celaire, who now admits manslaughter, received a minimum 23-year sentence at the Old Bailey for trying to murder another former partner, Kara Hoyte, 21.
He was prosecuted again under double jeopardy laws when Ms Hoyte told police Celaire had confessed to the killing.
He was also ordered to serve a minimum of eight years for Ms McDermott's manslaughter, to run concurrently.
The former Maidstone United footballer is the first person in the UK to be convicted of a crime for which he was previously acquitted by a jury.
'No mercy'
The convicted rapist, from Sydenham in south-east London, admitted trying to murder Ms Hoyte in a hammer attack, in February 2007.
Sentencing him, Judge Paul Worsley said Celaire had "showed no mercy" to his two victims.
"You present a very real and continuing danger to young women with whom you enter into a close relationship."
The judge said Celaire had waited until the last minute to plead guilty to see if the evidence of the severely disabled Ms Hoyte would stand up to scrutiny.
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