Axe killer should have been deported

A convicted killer who hacked his sister-in-law to death with an axe after she repeatedly contacted the Home Office in a bid to get him deported was jailed for at least 28 years. Nicolae Virtosu, 49, was convicted of strangling his wife, Anastasia Virtosu, to death in Moldova in September 2009 but he was let out and came to the UK illegally in 2016. Virtosu had threatened to kill Svetlana Mihalachi, 53, before he murdered her with a hatchet as…