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Live: Lily Sullivan murderer Lewis Haines to be sentenced

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  • Lewis Haines will serve a minimum of 23 years for the murder of Lily
  • "I wish I could have protected her from the evil she met that night," Lily's mother Anna
  • "She must have been terrified. An 19-year-old girl alone in the dark with a powerful man entirely at your mercy," Judge Paul Thomas
  • Haines, 31, murdered Lily Sullivan, 18, in Pembroke in December last year
  • Lily is said to have been strangled. Her body was then dumped in the Millpond
  • Haines admitted to the murder in June
  • Sentencing was delayed due to the prosecution alleging there was a 'sexual element' to the murder

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