A man has been jailed for life for strangling his partner to death to death just after she helped him recover from cancer.

'Monster' George Chalmers, 54, has been sentenced to life in jail after he strangled his girlfriend Ruth Baker, 48, to death at his Leeds home and confessed to police moments later.

George Chalmers, 54, has been jailed for a minimum of 17 years and six months after he confessed to strangling girlfriend Ruth Baker until she died in Leeds, West Yorkshire in March this year