A convicted killer who stabbed to death a mother-of-three before fleeing to Spain has been jailed for life.
David Baxendale, 40, carried out a "ferocious attack" on Sarah Thomas, 38, at her home in High Street, Nutfield, on 10 May last year.
Surrey Police said he fled the country on a ferry and travelled to southern Spain where he had been jailed for a previous murder in 2001.
He was extradited and given a whole-life term at Guildford Crown Court.
The court heard how Baxendale met Miss Thomas at a friend's flat in Redhill and the pair caught a taxi back to her flat in Nutfield village.
Miss Thomas's boyfriend later went to the flat and found her lying on the living room floor covered in blood.
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