Killer Jason Wade did lie his way out of a murder charge, a jury at Leeds Crown Court decided today.

They unanimously convicted him of three charges of perjury in two hours, 20 minutes.

He is now serving ten years in prison resulting from the death of Wayne Nicholson, 24, in Tang Hall in March 1998.

His barrister Paul Worsley, QC said his bad behaviour in jail will mean that he will serve far more of this total sentence than other prisoners.

Wade, 29, denied all three counts. The offences occurred at his trial for murder in March 1999, at the end of which he was sentenced for manslaughter.

Mr Justice Harrison gave him three years consecutively for the perjury to the seven year sentence he is now serving for the manslaughter.

He said Wade's perjury struck at the "very root of our system of justice".