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<h6 class="article__headline">Spurned man, Anthony Porter, broke into the home of Andraya Lyons, 38, after she broke up with him at her work Christmas party</h6>
<h6 class="article__headline">Porter killed Lyons after entering her Swindon home in Wiltshire, UK in the early hours of Dec 10, 2016</h6>
<h6 class="article__headline">32-year-old Porter, beat the mum-of-two with an iron, poured paint down her throat and then torched her home in chilling murder</h6>
<h6 class="article__headline">He handed himself in to police hours later and admitted the muder, which he described as “five minutes of madness”.</h6>
<h6 class="article__headline">Quizzed by cops, Porter, whose has priors include convictions for violence, said he could not explain his actions.</h6>
<h6 class="article__headline">Jailed for life and ordered him to serve a minimum of 17 years</h6>
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<p>Spurned lover, Anthony Porter, broke into the home of Andraya Lyons, after she broke up with him at her work Christmas party, the Bristol Crown Court heard.</p>
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<p class="article__content article__content--intro">Porter, 32, allegedly, murdered his estranged girlfriend by beating her with an iron, pouring paint down her throat and setting her house on fire after they argued at a Christmas party, a court has heard.<br />
Anthony Porter broke into the home of mum-of-two Andraya Lyons, 38, after she told him their relationship was over and left the party without him.</p>
<div class="article__media-img-container open-gallery"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-182805" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/andraya-lyons1.jpg" alt="Andraya Lyons1" width="482" height="959" /></div>
<h6 class="article__media"><strong>Andraya Lyons, broke up with Porter on the evening he killed her</strong></h6>
<p>Bristol Crown Court heard Porter attacked Lyons viciously after entering her house in Swindon, Wiltshire, in the early hours of December 10 last year.<br />
Porter punched, kicked and stamped on Ms Lyons as well as hitting her with an iron, causing 45 separate injuries in the brutal attack.<br />
He poured grey paint down her throat while she was unconscious then set her home on fire while she was still alive.<br />
Emergency workers discovered the body of Ms Lyons, who had sons aged seven and five, in her lounge after neighbours reported the smell of smoke.<br />
Porter handed himself in to police hours later and admitted the savage killing, which he described as “five minutes of madness”.<br />
Judge Peter Blair QC jailed Porter for life and ordered him to serve a minimum of 17 years. He told Porter: “This was a sustained assault beginning from the moment you broke into her home, with her shouting for you to get out.<br />
“It is clear that you inflicted suffering to her both mentally and physically before subduing her until she fell into a state of unconsciousness.<br />
“What you then did to her unconscious body was appalling.”<br />
Prosecuting, Colin Meeke said the couple had been together since summer 2015.</p>
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<h6 class="article__media-img-container open-gallery"> <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-182803" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/anthony-porter1.jpg" alt="Anthony Porter1" width="712" height="960" /><strong>Mean drunk: Anthony Porter broke into Lyons’ home and brutally murdered her after she broke off their relationship publicly</strong></h6>
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<p>They attended her work Christmas party, at the Marriott hotel in Swindon, on December 9 and Porter drank heavily.<br />
Mr Meeke said Porter was known to become violent after drinking, with pals later telling cops he could “change after just one drink”.<br />
The court heard he became “loud, drunk, lewd and aggressive” at the party and at one stage tussled with a visibly distressed Ms Lyons on the floor.<br />
Mr Meeke said: “He was pulled away from her, swearing aggressively and she told him that it was all over.”<br />
Friends ordered Ms Lyons a taxi and as it drove away, Porter punched the window and said: “I’ll break into the house and torch it.”<br />
Ms Lyons arrived home at about 1.20am and neighbours heard shouting at about 2am, when Porter entered the property.<br />
Neighbours described hearing about 15 “thudding sounds” and a woman screaming for up to six minutes, Mr Meeke said.<br />
At 5.37am, Porter texted a friend: “Some of us have angels, some of us have demons. Tonight the demons won.”<br />
EMTs discovered Ms Lyons’ body after arriving at the burning house at 5.57am.<br />
A post-mortem found the mum died from a combination of the fire, inhaling the paint and head injuries causing by Porter.<br />
Mr Meeke said: “She had been breathing, quite probably unconscious, when the fire started and she had been breathing when the paint was poured down her throat.”<br />
Her 45 injuries included a broken nose, bruising and cuts to her face and defence injuries on her arms.<br />
While being quizzed by cops, Porter – who has previous convictions for violence – said he could not explain his actions.<br />
Robert Ross, representing Porter, apologised to Ms Lyons’ family and read a letter written by his client.<br />
The letter read: “Even when I get released I am going to go to sleep thinking about what I have done – the guilt that I have taken the boys’ mother from them, it eats me up every time I think about them.”<br />
In a statement released through Wiltshire Police, Ms Lyons&#8217; family paid tribute to her as &#8220;a generous, fun-loving, bubbly, caring person&#8221; and urged those experiencing domestic abuse to seek help.</p>
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Spurned man beat lover mum-of-two with an iron, poured paint down her throat and then torched her home in chilling murder
