By Helen Lawson PUBLISHED: 05:45 EST, 26 April 2013 | UPDATED: 07:47 EST, 26 April 2013 Jade Bayliss was off school with illness when her mother's ex-boyfriend burgled the home, strangled her, and set the house alight A convicted killer has been found guilty of murdering a 13-year-old British schoolgirl in New Zealand. Jade Bayliss was strangled with an electrical cord by her mother's former boyfriend Jeremy McLaughlin before he set the family home ablaze to cover up the crime. McLaughlin, a 35-year-old labourer, was found guilty of her murder this week as it emerged that he had previously been freed early from jail for killing a 14-year-old boy in Australia.
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Jade Bayliss, from Cumbria, was murdered by Jeremy McLaughlin in 2011
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McLaughlin had broken up with her mother Tina Lawson a fortnight before
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He killed Jade because she saw him burgle the family home in Christchurch
McLaughlin served six years in jail before he was deported to @placeholder in 2001.