Anxiang Du facing life sentence

After Anxiang Du was jailed for at least 40 years, relatives of the Ding family made the following statement:

A businessman who slaughtered a family of four at their home in Northamptonshire before fleeing the country has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 40 years for their murders.

54-year-old Anxiang Du stabbed Jeff Ding, his wife, Helen, and their two daughters, Xing and Alice to death on April 29, 2011.

Yesterday a jury took just over 3 hours to unanimously convict him.

Friends and colleagues of the family have been remembering the Dings.

Here is Dr Vittorio Caprio's tribute.

A man who murdered a Northampton family has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 40 years.

54-year-old Anxiang Du stabbed Jeff Ding, his wife, Helen, and their two daughters, Xing and Alice to death on April 29, 2011.

Read more: Anxiang Du guilty of quadruple murder

Anxiang Du is due to be sentenced for the quadruple murder of a Northampton family at the town's Crown Court in the next hour.

Our reporter Olivia Paterson is in Court for us. Read the news on Du's sentence here first:

Read more: Anxiang Du found guilty

A man who murdered a family of four from Northampton is due to be sentenced today. Anxiang Du was found guilty yesterday of murdering Jeff and Helen Ding and their two daughters.

He stabbed them to death at their home in Wootton in April 2011. The attack was carried out in revenge following a long-running business dispute.

After killing the family, he fell asleep in their house, before fleeing the country. He was finally caught last year in Morocco.