Man given 18-year tariff for lover's murder

An ex-policeman who stabbed his lover to death in a frenzied and merciless attack was today ordered to serve at least 18 years in jail before he can be freed.

William Coulter, 52, went berserk and knifed mother-of-two Gillian Doherty 30 times in a drunken rage at their home in Portstewart, Co Derry.