A British helicopter pilot has been sentenced to 20 years in a Spanish jail for the chemsex murder of a man he had arranged to meet for a weekend of passion.

A jury ruled three weeks ago Aaron Rainbow, 50, originally from Surrey, had “violently and intentionally” killed Oscar Tornero, 38, by stabbing him six times in different parts of his body after they binged on drugs.

And today trial judge Carmen Sucias Rodriguez confirmed his punishment in an 87-page deferred sentence ruling, handing him the maximum penalty for his crime under Spanish law by refusing to take into account the mitigating factor of drug use the Brit’s lawyers had wanted applied.

She also ordered him to pay Oscar’s family and ex-partner a total of nearly £470,000 in compensation, with the lion’s share of just over £

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