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Jorge Garay, 46, murdered mum-of-one Karla Godoy and buried her body in his grandmother's garden in Peru - with his trial a landmark for domestic abuse crime in Britain
A “controlling bully” who killed his girlfriend during a holiday to Peru and then buried her body in a shallow grave at his grandmother’s house was convicted of murder in a landmark trial in the UK. Legal proceedings against Jorge Garay were held at Maidstone Crown Court under new a domestic abuse law, despite the killing of Karla Godoy taking place 6,000 miles away in the South American country. Jurors were told that an angry Garay murdered the mother-of-one by twice wrapping a bungee-type cord