THE daughter of murdered Kent school teacher has spoken movingly about the loss of her mother.

Frances Hutchings, 23, was in court to see her father, 60-year-old Peter Hutchings. convicted of killing her mother, Sally Jessop.

In a statement she said: “This terrible atrocity has stained the rest of my life.

My mum was my family.

"She was the only family support I had, so to say I’ve felt alone and bereft is an understatement. Sometimes I don’t know if I can bear to exist another minute without her. I miss being able to share things with her. I miss trivial conversations and banter.

“It’s only because I love her so much and don’t want to let her down that I carry on living, that I have the strength to get up every morning.

“Were it not for Peter, the monster in her midst, she’d be here now laughing and enjoying life to the full.”

Hutchings, strangled 48-year-old Miss Jessop last New Year’s Eve at the home in Harcourt Drive, Canterbury, they used to share.

Jailing him for life and telling him he would serve a minimum of 14 years, Mr Justice Wilkie told Hutchings: “You are a person who is of a controlling, manipulative and obsessive nature.”

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