killer who escaped from custody after strangling his girlfriend in west London 16 years ago and raped two women while on the run in Spain will be sent

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killer who escaped from custody after strangling his girlfriend in west London 16 years ago and raped two women while on the run in Spain will be sentenced.
Miguel da Silva was found guilty of murdering mother-of-two Susan Martin in September 1994 by an Old Bailey jury.
The asylum seeker, described as "possessive and controlling", throttled his 44-year-old lover the day before she planned to leave him to go back to Manchester.
Ms Martin's body was discovered face down with a beige cloth tied tight around her neck in her bedroom in Notting Hill, west London.
Da Silva, 24 at the time, handed himself in to police and was remanded to secure accommodation in Ealing Hospital while an assessment of his mental health was being carried out. But during a fire drill in 1995 the Angolan escaped and fled to Spain.
In January 1999 he was jailed for seven years for raping a woman he had befriended in Torremolinos and in May 2008 he was given a nine-year sentence for a similar attack in Salamanca. But the crimes did not at first lead to his capture by British police as he was using false identities.
It was only after detectives launched a cold case review last year and spoke to associates that they decided to circulate his fingerprints to Spain and Portugal and discovered that he was already in custody.
He was extradited to Britain on the understanding that he be returned to Spain after his trial to complete his jail spell for the rape before starting his sentence for the murder.
Da Silva, who is now 40, denied the allegation but on the day his trial was due to start admitted manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility