Vitale Tanga (41), originally from Moldova and of no fixed address, has had his sentence increased by five years after the Solicitor General referred his case to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence (ULS) scheme.

The court heard that in September 2022, Tanga strangled his cellmate, Tajinder Kular, with a kettle cord.

Kular was discovered unconscious by officers and taken to the prison hospital. He died in October 2022 from complications arising from resuscitation and cardiac arrest, and ligature strangulation.

A postmortem found he had ligature marks round his neck, as well as bruising to his face and several broken bones in his neck.

At the time of the murder of Mr Kular, Vitale Tanga was on remand in prison awaiting trial for assault and under investigation for the u

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