David Minto jailed for Sasha Marsden murder in Blackpool

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A man has been jailed for life for killing a teenage girl he stabbed 58 times, sexually assaulted and set on fire in Blackpool.

David Minto, 23, from the town, lured Sasha Marsden to her death on the false promise of a job in his girlfriend's hotel, Preston Crown Court heard.

Minto, who had denied murder, sexually assaulted and stabbed the 16-year-old in the head and neck.

Her family wept as he was told to serve a minimum of 35 years in prison.

Minto dumped her body, wrapped in a bin liner, in an alleyway near the Grafton House Hotel, Kirby Road, on 31 January.

The injuries inflicted on the teenager, from Staining, near Blackpool, were so severe that she had to be identified by DNA from her toothbrush.