Overview

• A Manchester Crown Court jury convicted Barlow on August 28, and Judge John Potter imposed a life sentence with a 20-year minimum on August 29.
• CCTV showed Borocz leaving a Bolton convenience store with Barlow and walking toward his Pedder Street home, and forensic testing found his DNA on her clothing and left breast.
• Borocz’s unclothed body was discovered in Barlow’s garden shed nine days after she was reported missing, after he dumped her clothes in a bin.
• Prosecutors detailed how Barlow lied to police and others, canceled his cleaner, and repeatedly changed his account, which the judge described as cynical lies.
• A pathologist said death most likely resulted from asphyxiation, with hypothermia or deprivation also considered, and the victim’s family delivered a statement at sentencing describing profound loss.