Man jailed over 'bread stick' killing

A man who stabbed his flatmate to death after she hit him on the head with a bread stick has been jailed for seven years.

Former teacher Chingis Manibazar, 40, originally from Mongolia, stabbed Bayasjalan Gunaajor, 28, in the back with a kitchen knife during an argument.

The 40-year-old was found guilty of manslaughter but cleared of murder at the Old Bailey.

Manibazar denied stabbing Mrs Gunaajor deliberately because she had humiliated him.

He claimed she had been wounded during a struggle at their flat in Shepherd's Bush, west London.

The court heard a group of illegal immigrants lived together in cramped conditions in the flat.

Hand-to-mouth existence

Manibazar said Mrs Gunaajor was angry when she returned home to find he had been drinking with a friend.

The prosecution said he then claimed she had hit him on the head with the bread stick and kicked him, which caused him embarrassment.

Mrs Gunaajor died from internal bleeding because of a punctured artery in January this year.

Judge Graham Boal said Manibazar's "tolerance had been considerably reduced" as he led a hand-to-mouth existence in a foreign land but described his victim as a "defenceless woman".

The judge recommended that Manibazar should be deported after serving his sentence.