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| Jesse Matthew admits Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington murders | Jesse Matthew admits Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington murders |
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| A man has been given four consecutive life sentences after admitting the murder and abduction of two students. | A man has been given four consecutive life sentences after admitting the murder and abduction of two students. |
| Jesse Matthew, 34, pleaded guilty to the murders of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, 18, and Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, 20, and abduction with intent to defile. | |
| British-born Ms Graham vanished in 2014 and Ms Harrington disappeared in 2009. | |
| Matthew, from Virginia, said he was sorry through his attorney at Albemarle County Circuit Court. | Matthew, from Virginia, said he was sorry through his attorney at Albemarle County Circuit Court. |
| He is already serving three life terms for a 2005 sexual assault in northern Virginia. | |
| Ms Graham's mother, Susan Graham, called her daughter "a heroine" as she had enabled law enforcement to apprehend Matthew who had been "hiding in plain sight in Charlottesville for years". | |
| Ms Graham was born in Reading, England, and moved to the US with her parents at the age of five. | |
| She vanished after having dinner and attending parties off her university campus in September 2014. | |
| CCTV captured her walking unsteadily past a service station and a restaurant. | |
| Footage also showed Matthew walking with her, his arm wrapped around her. | |
| Her body was found five weeks later on abandoned property in Albemarle County, about 12 miles from the Charlottesville campus and six miles from a hay field where Ms Harrington's remains had been found in January 2010. | |
| Ms Harrington disappeared in 2009 after she stepped out of a Metallica concert at the University of Virginia and was unable to get back in. |