By William Cook PUBLISHED: 13:54 EST, 12 November 2012 | UPDATED: 14:14 EST, 12 November 2012 A Lithuanian man has been handed a life sentence for strangling his ex-wife in Peterborough before taking her dead body to Poland and dumping it in a shallow grave. Rimas Venclovas, 47, murdered Vitalija Baliutaviciene, 29, after discovering she had started a new life with another man. Her body was discovered in a remote wood in western Poland by a mushroom-picker more than two months after she disappeared from her home in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. Murdered: Vitalija Baliutaviciene, left, was strangled in Peterborough by ex-husband Rimas Venclovas, right
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Lithuanian Rimas Venclovas, 47, had already been investigated by UK police for assaulting Vitalija Baliutaviciene, 29
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Fled back to Lithuania while on bail, where he planned her murder
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Warned victim's mother that her daughter would be 'kidnapped and sold'
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Converted Mercedes van to transport body to Poland, where it was buried in shallow grave and discovered by mushroom picker
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Pleaded not guilty, but jailed for life with minimum term of 20 years
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