Man who buried girlfriend alive gets 20 years

A MAN who attempted to murder his girlfriend by burying her alive in a cardboard box has been jailed for 20 years in Britain.

Marcin Kasprzak, aged 26, attacked Michelina Lewandowska with a Taser, bound and gagged her and buried her under soil, leaves and an 88lb tree branch in woodland near their home in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

Lewandowska, 27, escaped from the box after around an hour, by using her engagement ring to cut herself free.