Girl’s real killer gets life decade after boyfriend wrongly convicted

A man has been jailed for life for strangling a teenager to death, more than a decade after her boyfriend was wrongly convicted of the murder.

Shahidul Ahmed killed and “brutally battered” shop assistant Rachel Manning, 19, in Dec 2000, dumping her body in undergrowth at a golf course.

He hit Ms Manning repeatedly with a steering lock after she was dead, causing broken bones and disfiguring her face, Luton Crown Court heard.