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Failed student jailed for 28 years for murder

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A failed student is starting a 28-year prison sentence after a court heard how he murdered a sex worker in a "sustained and brutal" knife attack. Deepak Sandhu, 24, who studied a Southampton Solent University, met 39-year-old Xiaoqing Ke in 2025 when she was working in a brothel in the city. At the trial at the Old Bailey, Judge Philip Katz sentenced him after hearing how he had murdered the mother of two in her flat in West London on 9 December.

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Failed Southampton student jailed for 28 years for London murder

The court heard Deepak Sandhu stole from Xiaoqing Ke and tried to flee the country after her death.

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BBC News broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Friday, October 16, 2026.
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