Families of homicide victims here have renewed calls for minimum prison terms for murder following the 23-year sentence handed down to Alexander Pacteau.

In the end, it took just 20 minutes to hand down the mandatory life sentence.

“We hope that he is never released and spends every day in prison haunted by what he did.”

Karen Buckley’s killer Alexander Pacteau has been jailed for life for the brutal murder of the Irish nurse earlier this year.

In a statement after the murderer of Cork nurse Karen Buckley was sentenced to life in prison, Karen’s father John said: "Our little angel has been taken from us forever in the cruellest of ways."

Karen Buckley’s killer Alexander Pacteau has been jailed for life for the brutal murder of the Irish nurse earlier this year.

The sentencing hearing of the man who murdered Karen Buckley in Glasgow is to be televised tomorrow, and will be broadcast after proceedings end.

Police in Scotland are hunting for other potential victims of the man who murdered Karen Buckley in Glasgow, according to Scottish newspaper reports.

“Our hearts are broken at the thought of Karen’s final moments on this world.

Karen Buckley’s father described Alexander Pacteau as ‘truly evil’ after the killer admitted repeatedly hitting her with a spanner and trying to dispose of her body in a bath of chemicals. In an emotional speech outside of court, John Buckley, who travelled with his wife Marian and three sons for the hearing said there are no words to describe what the family went through.

Alexander Pacteau planned to find a victim on the night he brutally killed Cork nurse Karen Buckley in Glasgow, police believe.

Officers had to contend with a mountain of fabrications by a serial liar who meticulously planned getting away with murder. Joe Leogue reports from Glasgow

People across Scotland and Ireland expressed their sympathy for the family of Karen Buckley after her disappearance.

A convicted forger has admitted beating Irish student Karen Buckley to death with a spanner then trying to dispose of her body using caustic soda.

It has emerged Alexander Pacteau was previously accused of a sex attack on woman – just a mile from where he murdered Karen Buckley.

Former private schoolboy, Alexander Pacteau, faces life in jail for the brutal murder of Irish nurse Karen Buckley.

21-year-old Alexander Pacteau this morning admitted to murdering Karen Buckley after a night out in Glasgow last April.

Karen Buckley's father, John, read out an emotional statement on behalf of his family after Alexander Pacteau today pleaded guilty to her murder in April.

The man charged with the murder of Cork student Karen Buckley has made a second private appearance in court today.

A 21-year-old man charged with the murder of Karen Buckley is due back in court today.

Books of condolence have been opened at civic offices in County Cork for the family of murdered student Karen Buckley.

Tragic Karen Buckley was attacked with a spanner and strangled by the man accused of murdering her, prosecutors claim.

A second vigil will be held today to remember Cork student Karen Buckley.

Alexander Pacteau has appeared in court charged with the murder of Cork student Karen Buckley.

The mother of the man seen talking to Karen Buckley on CCTV footage on the night she went missing has insisted her son is innocent.