- Hello and welcome to the live blog of the sentencing hearing of Sicilian killer Andrea Cardinale.
- Graeme Hetherington will be bringing live updates from Teesside Crown Court.
- Francesca Di Dio and Antonino Calabro, known as Nino, were brutally slain days before Christmas last year.
- The bodies of the couple were found in a flat on Thornaby Road, Thornaby on December 21, 2022.
- Francesca had travelled from Italy to visit her partner for Christmas before they were both found dead.
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