2020, Newry

Patrycja had been due to start a job as an auxiliary nurse. In the week after she was killed, her friends held a memorial walk for her.

She was killed by her partner. He told police he killed her in 'erotic asphyxiation' - a claim repeated in his first court hearing. His defence barrister said that it was a normal part of their sex life, and when Patrycja died “she never gave him such signal to actually stop.”

However, at court he admitted through his barrister that this claim was an “utter lie” and that he had murdered Patrycja. He had been controlling, police had been called to the house several times in their short relationship, and he finally killed her in jealousy over previous partners.

Patrycja’s mother Iwona said “He stole Patrycja’s life just as it was beginning to blossom.”

“I do not forgive him. I never will.”

Murder, 20 years

1998, County Tyrone

Sylvia was a care worker and was pregnant when she was killed. She was killed by her boyfriend , Stephen Scott, then 28, “was known in the area as a "Jack the lad". He was also said “to have a liking for violent sex.”

Scott claimed Sylvia “died in a sex game that went wrong” and that “she had consented to being tied to his bed with ropes, gagged and injected with insulin.” He dismembered her body before hiding it in the foundations of a house.

Murder, Life sentence, served 19 years (now released)

1997, Armagh

Janet was mum to four children. She’d previously been in the British Army and had lived in England and Hong Kong. She had just met the man who killed her, at a disco. David Eric Porter, 23, strangled her. Appallingly, Janet was found by her daughter.

The Judge accepted Porter’s claim that she had died accidentally, in what the Judge called "deviant sexual behaviour". He accepted Porter did not intend to cause her death. Porter’s guilty plea to manslaughter was accepted.

Manslaughter, 5 years