A truck driver who stabbed his ex-wife to death after she posted a TikTok video of her blowing a kiss to her lover has been jailed for at least 18 years.

Stony Stoica, 44, married Beatrice Cenusa, 36, in Romania in 2009 but they divorced 10 years later over his gambling addiction.

Stoica was jealous of his wife, an avid TikTok user with over 17,000 followers, and on July 21 last year Ms Cenusa posted a video of her lip-syncing a song with Claudiu Miteatu.

They blew each other a kiss at the end of the clip and when Stoica saw it he became enraged, demanding she take it down, Inner London Crown Court heard.

Two days later Stoica turned up at Ms Cenusa's home in East Dulwich, southeast London, and plunged a knife into her chest.

'There was long-standing sexual jealousy,' said Jocelyn Ledward, prosecuting.

'He had refused to allow his ex-wife to engage in relationships without his permission, threatening to kill her if she did such a thing.

'She said she wasn't interested in a relationship any longer and wanted her own romantic life.

'When it was clear she had moved on and started a relationship with another man the defendant killed her.'

Stoica drove down from Humberside last 23 July, stopping for two and a half hours at a service station casino to play the slots.

Shortly before the killing Mr Miteatu had texted Ms Cenusa asking if she was ok because he was concerned about her welfare.

Ms Cenusa replied: 'I'm fine.

I wish I could kiss you. Leave it because it will pass.'

Stoica later messaged Ms Cenusa saying: 'I'm at the door.'

Less than four minutes later CCTV captured Stoica running away from his ex-wife's flat in Lordship Lane.

A neighbour found Ms Cenusa lying in a pool of blood with a kitchen knife sticking out of her chest.

He asked her who did it and she said it was her husband.

While lying on the floor Ms Cenusa video-called Mr Miteatu and said: 'Claudiu, he barged in and stabbed me.'

Mr Miteatu saw the knife in her chest, her body and face covered in blood and watched her pass out.

She was still breathing when paramedics arrived, though they were unable to save her and she was pronounced dead just after 2am.

Judge Usha Karu jailed Stoica for life and ordered he serve at least 18 years before he can before released on parole.

'She sustained nine stab wounds to her chest and back, another to her thigh and several to her hands and arm, inflicted with the same knife.

'There was an incised wound to the front of her neck and her lungs had collapsed.

'It appears she tried hard to defend herself.

She was wearing only her underwear and a t-shirt type dress.

'Blood was found in the living room, significant blood on the walls and in the hall and on the handle of the door.

'No blood was found in the kitchen where the knife must have come from.

Her mobile phone was found in a pool of blood on the floor.'

The couple's nine-year-old daughter heard the screams of her mother from her bedroom and was guided through the blood-soaked hallway by police.

'For a child to have to hear the screams of her mother as she is being stabbed is horrific,' said Judge Karu.

'It is impossible to gauge the long term damage caused.

'There is no sensible explanation other than your controlling behaviour and that you were consumed by jealousy.

'You must have intended to cause very serious harm.

You left her with the knife plunged in her chest.'

Stoica, of no fixed address, admitted murder.

Detective Chief Inspector Katherine Goodwin, who led the investigation, said: 'Stoica's attack was so vicious that Beatrice was discovered with the knife still embedded in her chest.

'He is clearly an extremely dangerous man and it is right that he will now spend a significant amount of his life in jail.

'Not only did he kill a completely innocent women, he also had no regard for the fact their nine-year-old daughter was in the next room.

'She will have to live with losing her mother in these traumatic circumstances for the rest of her life.

Our thoughts today remain with her and the rest of Beatrice's family.'