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A Premier League youth footballer was jailed for life today after he admitted murdering his teenage girlfriend by stabbing her 60 times.

Andrew Hall, 18, attacked Megan Peat, 15, in a drunken rage after he mistakenly believed she was cheating on him.

The “jealous” footballer grabbed two kitchen knives and repeatedly stabbed her in the head, neck and upper chest.

After the brutal killing he walked to a pub where the couple had been drinking with friends.

Covered in blood he told a doorman: “I have killed someone. Oh my God, what have I done? I really, really loved her.”

Just hours earlier Megan had sent a text message to a friend saying: “I’m scared, I can’t do this any more”.

Hall must serve a minimum of 10 years in jail before he is eligible for parole.

Judge Richard Foster told him that he had “thrown away” a promising football career.

He said: “Megan was a bright, normal, gregarious 15-year-old with her whole life ahead of her. You so cruelly took that life.

“She will never experience the thrill of successful exam results and further education, being a bridesmaid at her best friend’s wedding or her 18th birthday party.

“It is clear that you were jealous of her seemingly innocent friendship with others.

"Megan talked about you accusing her of cheating on you.

“In a text message to you she wrote: ‘You do not trust me so what is the point in being together?’

“It was a vicious and relentless attack by you stabbing Megan some 60 times.”

Talented midfielder Hall was the ‘player of the season’ for Stoke City’s under 18 side.

He had been dating Megan for around 10 months when they began arguing.

Hall was jealous of her spending time with other men.

On June 9 this year the couple met up in Ampthill, Beds., for a night out with friends.

But they fell out during the evening after Hall called her a “slut” and demanded “why do I bother?”

Megan left the pub after the argument and asked a male friend to give her a lift home to Westoning, Beds., further fuelling Hall’s jealousy.

But she returned later that night.

Hall and Megan then left the pub together to stay at mutual friend Haydn Edwins’ house nearby.

Ian Wicks, prosecuting, told Luton Crown Court: “The atmosphere had appeared to have thawed somewhat and they decided to leave the pub ahead of the rest of the group.

“They were last seen walking hand in hand with the keys to a friend’s house.

"It was the last time Megan was seen alive.

“The next time the defendant was seen was outside the pub at 1.30am, bloodstained and dishevelled.”

Megan was found dead in a pool of her own blood.

Her jugular artery and nose were severed and she had suffered a fractured jaw and deep wounds to her chest and lungs.

Hall’s attack was so frenzied that police found knife marks in the laminate floor.

Police had to wait to question Hall, of Flitwick, Beds., while he received hospital treatment for a knife wound to his left hand.

Test revealed the teenager was more than two-and-a-half times the drink-drive limit.

Megan’s family had tears in their eyes throughout the sentencing.

In a statement they said: “The day Megan died will be forever etched in our memories, it was the day our lives were torn apart.

“Before her untimely death we were an ordinary family leading an ordinary life.

"Since that fateful day our world has changed beyond recognition.”