Killer's 'lenient' sentence reviewed

Nicole Lewis was killed at the couple's home

The prison sentence of a Liverpool chef who killed his fiancée and hid her body in a wardrobe is to be reviewed by the Court of Appeal.

Solicitor General Harriet Harman has referred the case so appeal court judges can decide whether 27-year-old Mark Wilkinson's four-year jail sentence was "unduly lenient".

Wilkinson, who was convicted of manslaughter, was jailed in September after killing model Nicole Lewis.

Following the case at Liverpool Crown Court domestic violence campaigners reacted angrily to the length of the sentence.

Solicitor General Ms Harman took up the case

On Monday the Attorney General's office told BBC News Online there was no confirmed date as to when the case review would be heard.

"I can confirm that the case has been referred in the name of Harriet Harman (the Attorney General's deputy)," she said.

"We are currently waiting for a date for the case to come through."

Wilkinson, of Victoria Road, Tuebrook, was jailed after suffocating Ms Lewis, 24, who had broken off a relationship with him.

The court heard how he had asked her to come round to their house last March, soon after she had moved into a womens' refuge with their two children.

After she arrived the couple went upstairs to talk, Wilkinson pinned Ms Lewis to the bed and suffocated her, before leaving her body in the wardrobe.

At his trial, the court decided Wilkinson had not pre-planned Ms Lewis's killing.