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He will serve at least 38 years for the murder of Zara Aleena, judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb says. 

The judge describes the murder as "brutal" and "sexually motivated".

She says she had found no mitigation, apart from McSweeney's guilty plea. 

The killer had cried at the police station after being charged with murder and rape, she says, but at other times had kept up a "bored and disinterested facade" and had been "belligerent" when asked to come to court. 

The judge also found a "significant degree of premeditation", describing him as wandering around the area "until he found the ideal circumstances" in which to attack a vulnerable woman. 

The judge says both the defence and prosecution agreed that the minimum prison term should be at least 30 years, with the prosecution arguing it should be well in excess of that.

She stressed that this would be a minimum and that he would remain in prison until the parole board considers he is no longer a risk and can be released. 

"That day may never come," she adds.

The judge also points to a "significant degree of premeditation" - saying he wandered around the area until he found the ideal circumstances.

She that for the sexual assault alone he would be sentenced to six years' imprisonment, but has yet to rule on what his actual minimum sentence will be.

The judge says that while McSweeney had the physical advantages of strength and surprise, "in everything else she was better than him".

"She was talented, spirited, intelligent and kind," she says.

"Spending her evening with her friend, she had done nothing wrong, taken no misstep, shown no lack of sense. She was simply a happy, healthy woman, living her life in what most Londoners think of as the best city in the world."

She adds that his refusal to come to court today shows he "has no spine whatsoever".

"Apart from the guilty pleas I find no mitigation," the judge adds.

She says he cried at the police station after being charged with murder and rape.

Judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb is now describing the assault on Zara Aleena. 

She says it was clear the victim "struggled and fought" against her attacker. 

The judge describes how he "parted her legs while she was on the ground" and she fought back, before he "attacked her and pulled her back onto the ground".

He then must have rendered her unconscious as she stopped moving independently, the judge says.

McSweeney then "kicked and stamped on her" with "repeated, heavy assaults".

The judge says he "was not carried away" and it is "clear he was aware of what he was doing" as he ducked out of sight when a passerby came past.

She describes how he stamped on the victim with "sickening deliberation" before he "returned and repeatedly stamped down on her body again, using the balustrade for balance".

The attack lasted nine minutes, she says.

Ms Aleena was later found by two couples and paramedics were called, who tried to save her on the driveway where she was attacked for over an hour.

The judge says the victim was left with 46 separate injuries, including blunt force trauma to head and genital injuries. 

Ms Aleena was "stamped and strangled to death", she says. 

The judge continues that after the attack, McSweeney showed "no cares, no regrets, no contrition" and an "utter disrespect for the situation he was in".

After listening to the defence arguments, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb says "nothing could begin to justify" the attack on Zara Aleena. 

While she notes Jordan McSweeney's difficult childhood, she says there were "opportunities to reform available to him".

She says that he had been in prison before the attack, and failed to attend appointments with the probation service after he was released.

Nine days after his release, the judge says he was "prowling the streets of Ilford looking for a woman to attack".

Zara Aleena was a "complete stranger" and had "values and character entirely the opposite of his", the judge says. 

The victim's family will now "campaign for a better world in her name", she says.

The judge then describes how McSweeney targeted multiple women over the course of the night. 

While inside a pub with a friend, he had groped a woman and tried to molest a female member of staff before he was kicked out, the court hears. 

He later followed and harassed other women in the streets of Ilford, including an unidentified woman who he pursued for 21 minutes. 

"He deployed some degree of subterfuge, waiting to get her in front and falling behind when she appeared to notice him," the judge says.

"The woman may well have realised he was following her because wisely she entered a shop and showed her wariness by looking backwards towards the doorway."

Now that the defence and prosecution have made their arguments, the judge has left the courtroom to consider the sentence for Jordan McSweeney. 

We will bring you updates on the sentencing shortly.

The defence is now making the case that there is no evidence to suggest Jordan McSweeney wanted to murder the other women he followed, targeted and harassed on the night he killed Zara Aleena. 

"He is clearly looking for a female, seeking an opportunity, there is no plan," the Old Bailey hears.

Earlier, the court heard how the killer had roamed the streets targeting women on the night of the attack. 

McSweeney had been kicked out of a pub at 11pm and had identified three other women as potential targets, the Old Bailey heard. 

In one case, he had followed a woman into a supermarket and later chased her down a street. 

Defence lawyer George Carter-Stephenson KC tells the court that McSweeney is "truly for sorry for what he has done".

But Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb queries: "Where is the evidence of that?"

Mr Carter-Stephenson says this is what his client had wanted the court to know, to which the senior judge replies: "That is not evidence I am prepared to accept." 

The defence lawyer says McSweeney's guilty plea demonstrates "remorse", adding: "When he thinks about [the attack] it makes him feel sick."

McSweeney has not come up to the dock for the sentencing. 

Going into more detail about killer Jordan McSweeney's childhood, the defence says he had been expelled from two schools - one for selling drugs to fellow pupils. 

By 13 years old, he had begun bare-knuckle fighting for money, the court is told.

Defending, George Carter-Stephenson KC says: "To a certain extent Mr McSweeney was a damaged person from very early on in his childhood. He had seen trauma and violence, so damaged in relation to his ability to form emotional attachments."

He adds that the murderer suffers from ADHD, mixed depression and anxiety disorder, substance misuse and a personality disorder - "all of which interact and all of which cause him problems". 

The lawyer adds McSweeney "has no real memory" of events due to the amount of alcohol and illicit substances he had consumed.