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image captionJoseph Hindle, 46, and Louise Henwood, 34 were both sentenced at Preston Crown Court
A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his girlfriend s ex-partner to death after he answered the door.
Mark Fisher, 33, was stabbed at his home in Accrington, with one of the blows fracturing a rib, police said.
Joseph Hindle, 46, was convicted of his murder at Preston Crown Court and told he must serve at least 27 years.
His girlfriend, Louise Henwood, 34, who goaded him into the attack, earlier admitted manslaughter and was jailed for 13 years. Extreme violence
Lancashire Police said Henwood had sent Hindle to rob Mr Fisher, who was her former partner, as she believed he could have some cannabis.
Stephen Boyne, 55, of St Helens Close, Blackpool was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday. Boyne had been arrested earlier this year after a woman approached police at a petrol station in Kirkham reporting a man was following her in a car. The woman pointed to the vehicle, driven by Boyne, with officers giving him words of advice to leave the area, initially arranging a voluntary interview with him. The woman then gave further information to police, reporting a number of previous incidents involving Boyne, who was known to her. In February, Boyne had messaged the victim to say he knew she had a number of items in her house, all of which could not be seen from the outside.