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Video: Tomas Uptas
frightening customers in Morrisons

A thug who strangled his girlfriend in a jealous rage and
then went on the rampage with a gun before being shot by police has
been jailed for life.

Tomas Uptas will have to serve a minimum of 18-and-a-half years
before he is considered for parole.

The jury of eight men and four women took more than
10 hours to find the 32-year-old Lithuanian carpenter guilty of
murdering Loretta Raupiene on November 26 last year.

Uptas strangled Miss Raupiene, 46, with her scarf at their flat
in Victoria Road, Canterbury, because she planned to leave him and
return to Lithuania.

Her body was discovered after he armed himself with a BB gun and
threatened a number of terrified people in Wincheap and at
Morrison's supermarket.

He also pointed the gun at armed police and was shot in the
arm.

Uptas, who has been convicted of violence in Sweden, denied
murder.

He admitted attempted false imprisonment of David Bowles when
holding the gun to his head and possessing a firearm with intent to
cause fear of violence.

The judge, Mr Justice Cooke, said he was satisfied Uptas killed
Miss Raupiene in a fit of temper.

It was likely, he said, that Uptas then went out into the street
with the gun with the intention of police shooting him dead.