Man Jailed Life for Girlfriend's Murder

0:00That wraps Europe news today. Brought to you with AI. I'm Corey with the story. A 49-year-old Polish man named Norbert Mikezner just got slapped with a life sentence, minimum 24 years, for murdering his. 45-year-old girlfriend Francis Oby Foulet. He suffocated her by wrapping tape around her face at their home in Havont, Hampshire. The Portsmouth Crown Court also nailed him for child neglect. On the morning of April 17th, 2025, a highway's officer spotted Mikezner, wandering the hard shoulder of the M-40 motorway near. High-wike him in Buckinghamshire. He straight up told the officer to call the cops because he killed her. Post-mortem showed she died from smothering, with compression injuries to her neck and chest. Mikezner had scratches on his chest and back, likely from her desperate fight to survive in those final moments. The trial went on without him since he skipped it entirely. Cops said he confessed to officers, claiming it all felt like a dream he wanted to wake from. Detective Sergeant Heather Kinwright called it a heinous act,

1:02stressing the brutal suffering it caused Francis and her family. Francis was remembered by her loved ones as a kind, intelligent mother and friend whose bright light got cruelly snuffed out. While no prison term brings her back, this conviction locks him away for good, offering some closure amid the heartbreak.