A satellite TV installer has been jailed for at least 22 years after being found guilty of murdering a prostitute when visiting her for sex.
Neil McMillan, 42, strangled transgender escort Andrea Waddell, 29, then torched her home in Upper Lewes Road, Brighton, East Sussex.
McMillan applied "unremitting pressure" to university graduate Ms Waddell's neck for about 20 seconds while in a "worked-up and angry mood" on October 15 last year.
Jurors were asked to consider whether he killed her after discovering she was transgender or because she was unable, through her physical ailments, to perform sexually for him.
McMillan, of Bennett Road, Brighton, shook his head and tapped his fingers on the dock after the jury convicted him of murder after just over five hours of deliberation at Lewes Crown Court.
