A TEENAGER who murdered his lesbian next-door neighbour in a sexually motivated attack began a life sentence today.

Mathew Doman, of Patch Lane, Redditch, was found guilty of killing Naomi Phipps, a prison officer who lived next door to him, by strangling her and suffocating her with a plastic bag.

The 19-year-old was yesterday sentenced to a minimum of 20 years behind bars after a jury at Worcester Crown Court found him guilty of murder following an eight-day trial.