Life for student who 'snapped' and murdered guardian doctor

A law student who stabbed to death the doctor acting as his guardian because she pressured him to resit his exams was jailed for life today.

David Quartey, 22, was found guilty of murdering St Thomas' Hospital consultant paediatrician Dr Victoria Anyetei, 54, on 14 August last year.

He stabbed Dr Anyetei 56 times before dumping her body on the drive of their home in Dartford, Kent. She had become his guardian after the two struck up a friendship when the doctor saved the life of one of Quartey's relatives.

But Maidstone crown court heard how Quartey did not want his family in Ghana to know he had failed his law foundation exams a second time and "snapped".

Jailing him for at least 15 years, Judge Jeremy Carey said: "You gravely abused the trust she put in you. It was indeed a frenzied attack of enormous brutality."