Lewis Bagshaw’s heartbroken partner breaks her silence over killer's 16-year prison sentence

Emar Wiley, of no fixed address, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Monday (19 July) after a jury found him guilty of murdering 21-year-old Bagshaw on 21 July 2019.

He will serve a minimum life sentence of 16 years, minus the time he has already spent on remand. Sentences of five and a half years for GBH and three years for possession with intent to supply heroin and crack cocaine will be served concurrently.

Mr Bagshaw, who had a one-year-old son Carter with his girlfriend of five years Olivia Keeley, was chased and stabbed twice in the chest “with severe force”, according to a post-mortem report, before he was found by residents on Piper Crescent, near the Southey Green area of Sheffield.

Earlier this month, Olivia spoke to the Star and described the last year as a ‘living nightmare’ and ‘nothing but hell’.

The pair’s son turned two in May and spent his birthday at Lewis’ graveside where they took cake, sang happy birthday before letting off balloons.

Despite Wiley’s sentence, Olivia took to Facebook to state that ‘nothing would make this better’.

She said: “Nothing will ever make this better, everyday without you is hell. God took the wrong person that day, I will never understand this.”

Sentencing, Mr Justice Nicklin told Wiley: “The events leading up to the stabbing do not supply any motive for you to want to kill Lewis. In many ways, that makes his killing all the more senseless.

"Your involvement in the criminal enterprise of drugs has led to you becoming desensitised to violence.”

Reporting restrictions that prevented Wiley from being named due to his age were lifted by Mr Justice Nicklin following an application from The Star which argued it was in the public interest for the teenager to be named.

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