27-year-old Soldier jailed after stabbed his girlfriend to death and told his young daughter that the blood on the walls was ketchup

 A 'controlling and manipulating' soldier who murdered his former partner by stabbing her 11 times just 'to shut her up' was today jailed for life.
Jay Nava, 27, launched a 'frenzied and violent' attack on Natasha Wake at her home as their children slept upstairs, then stashed her body in a cupboard.

The attack against his one-off girlfriend was during a 'bitter and acrimonious' after she discovered he was being investigated for sexually assaulting another woman.

He had stabbed Natasha, 26, so forcefully that in six of the 11 stab wounds, the eight-inch kitchen knife had gone through her torso and out her back.

Their daughter heard screams and came down to find blood all over her father and the walls, a knife in his trousers and her mother slumped on the floor with a blanket over her.

He told the six-year-old to 'go upstairs and don't come back down' before later telling her that the blood splattered on the walls was 'ketchup'.

The day after the attack, in October last year, Nava contacted his mother in Australia confessing to killing Natasha and told her he was going to kill himself.

Shortly afterwards, police searching nearby beauty spot Hengistbury Head found Nava hanging from a tree with a noose around his neck.

After being resuscitated, he told officers 'I want to die' and police later found three suicide notes written by Nava.

Today at Winchester Crown Court, Hampshire, he was jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years for murdering Natasha in her home in Bournemouth, Dorset.

The soldier, based at the Royal Artillery's 29 Commando Regiment in Plymouth, Devon, was convicted of murder by a jury yesterday following a two-week trial.