Promising' Stoke City youth player, 18, jailed for life after he admits murdering girlfriend, 15, by stabbing her 60 TIMES at a house party

A 'jealous' Premier League footballer was on Friday given a life sentence after admitted butchering his 15-year-old girlfriend - stabbing her a staggering sixty times.

Andrew Hall, 18, who played for Stoke City's academy, pleaded guilty to murdering Megan-Leigh Peat at a house in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, on June 9 this year.

Megan was found stabbed at the house after emergency services were called in the early hours.

The pupil at Harlington Upper School in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, was covered in blood lying on the floor with dozens of stab wounds.

Hall relentlessly stabbed her 60 times in the head, neck and upper chest. Two knives, including a serrated bread knife, were found next to her body.

Judge Richard Foster gave Hall a life sentence with a minimum term of 10 years at Luton Crown Court today.

Shockingly, the court heard Hall attacked his girlfriend after mistaking her friendship with another man for an affair, despite her protesting her innocence.

Sentencing the killer at Luton Crown Court, Judge Richard Foster said Hall had 'cruelly' robbed Megan of her life and 'thrown away' his promising soccer career.