The family of a nurse who died after an acid attack have hit out at her killer's lack of remorse as he was jailed for 17 years in the first case of its kind.

Xeneral Webster was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Tuesday after admitting the manslaughter of Joanna Rand in what prosecutors say is the first acid killing in the UK.

The 19-year-old pleaded guilty to causing the death of Ms Rand part way through his trial in April.

He had armed himself with a corrosive substance, which was knocked from his hand by another male. Ms Rand was hit with the high-strength sulphuric acid on June 3 last year as she sat on a bench in Frogmoor, High Wycombe.

Sentencing Webster, from Westway, west London, Judge Angela Morris said: "You and your actions bear the responsibility for her [Ms Rand's] tragic demise."