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Man jailed for killing ex days after early release
Robert Sabat killed Dickiesha Nurse days after he was released on licence after serving 40% of a sentence for knife possession and harassment
A violent offender who was released from jail the day after he was sentenced stabbed his former partner and then begged to be returned to prison because he was going to "go on a murder spree", the Old Bailey has heard.
Robert Sabat, 60, pleaded guilty to murdering 42-year-old mother-of-two Dickiesha Nurse, who he stabbed at her flat in Tulse Hill, south London, last October.
He had been released on licence from HMP Wandsworth on 17 October 2025 after being sentenced the day before to a 12-month jail term for possession of a bladed article and harassment. He had been in prison on remand since May 2025 when he was freed.
Sabat, of Balham, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 17 years.
When he was released in October 2025, Sabat had served 40% of his 12-month sentence instead of the previous 50% requirement, in line with the government's change to offenders' automatic release dates, which began the month before, external.
Last week, the Sentencing Act 2026, external replaced this policy and some prisoners can now be released after they have served a third of their sentence.
When he was arrested on suspicion of Nurse's murder, Sabat claimed he had killed before and was planning a "murder spree".
He told officers: "I'm a murderer, I don't want to come back out, I wanna go to jail... I've been let out a week.
"Let me back... I'm happy in there, I've done wrong. I killed before and got away with it.