article_snippet: Oral Bryan, 44, has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his former partner with a hockey stick .
article_snippet: A father-of-five who used a hockey stick to bludgeon his former girlfriend to death in front of their children has been sentenced to life in prison.
article_snippet: Oral Bryan, 44, hit Nicola McKenzie, the mother of their two children, over the head with the stick 'like an axe' during a furious row.
article_snippet: As the two women squared up to one another, Bryan got a hockey stick from Bryan house and cracked a hockey stick from his house over Miss McKenzie's head as Miss McKenzie shouted: 'These are your kids, go on, show These what you're like.'
highlights_snippet: Oral Bryan, 44, hit Nicola McKenzie, 37, over the head with a hockey stick .
  