Man jailed over Wigan student's murder
A man has been jailed for a minimum of 31 years for the sexually motivated murder of a teenage student.
Mark Buckley, 52, attacked 18-year-old Ellen Higginbottom, before taking her laptop and mobile phone and then leaving her for dead near a wheat field close to Orrell Water Park in Wigan, Greater Manchester.
#Breaking Mark Buckley has been jailed for 31 years to life for the murder of student Ellen Higginbottom near Orrell Water Park in Wigan
-- Press Association (@PA) September 14, 2017
Miss Higginbottom was reported missing after failing to return home from Winstanley College in Orrell on June 16.
Her body was found the next day and a post-mortem examination showed she died from multiple wounds to the neck.