Killer who tried to sabotage his murder trial gets 25 years

A killer who stabbed a drug dealer to death before going on the run for seven months has been sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in jail. Jordan Briscoe, 25, was surrounded and stabbed in Arnold Road, Tottenham, after Christina Manen, 36, arranged to meet him to buy weed on 5 March last year. Manen, who lived in Ramsgate, Kent, was not even in London when she called Mr Briscoe to set up the deadly trap. Mr Briscoe was…