A man who beat another man to death and then disposed of his body in a wheelie bin dumped in a lake has been told he must serve at least 16 years in prison before he can be considered for release.
David Gill, 30, of no fixed abode has been sentenced at Belfast Crown Court for the murder of father of four Pat McCormick, 55, in Co Down in 2019.
Mr McCormick was lured to a flat in Comber on the evening of 30 May 2019, where he believed he was going to meet Gill's fiancee Lesley Ann Dodds, who he had had a brief relationship with.
Mr McCormick had received messages from Dodds' Facebook, saying she had left Gill and asking him to come to her flat.
Instead, when Mr McCormick arrived, only Gill was at the flat.
Judge Mr Justice Scoffield said Mr McCormick had been the victim of a "brutal and sustained assault".
Mr McCormick's body was discovered six weeks later in a lake in Co Down secured in a bin with straps and weighed down with concrete blocks.
A post-mortem examination showed he had suffered multiple rib fractures.
Dodds, 25, from Queen Victoria Gardens in Belfast, was sentenced to five-and-a-half years after admitting manslaughter, with half to be served in custody.
The judge said he had no doubt she had played her part in luring Mr McCormick to the flat.
Three other men who had admitted withholding information in relation to Mr McCormick's killing, were sentenced.
William Gill, 43, from Terrace View in Waringstown, Andrew Leslie, 24, from Mourne Crescent in Moneyrea and Jonathon Richard Leslie Montgomery, 24, from Castle Espie Road in Comber, were all given suspended sentences.
