BEAUVAIS, France: A court in northern France on Friday sentenced a man to 18 years in prison for stabbing and then burning alive his 15-year-old girlfriend.

The 2019 killing of the high school student, identified in court only as Shaina, revived outrage in France over the number of women who die at the hands of intimate partners.

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