Travis Collins will have every day for the rest of his life to sit in prison and think about the night he beat Ashley Sarazen until she was unrecognizable in the Harrisburg Hilton.

That’s exactly the way her family wants it to be, they told Collins at his Wednesday morning sentencing hearing on first-degree murder charges.

Collins, 34, was convicted on Aug. 28 of all but one charge against him: first-degree murder, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and aggravated indecent assault without consent. The jury found him not guilty of rape.

Under Pennsylvania law, a first-degree murder conviction comes with a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Judge William Tully called Collins’ crimes “demonic” and some of the worst he’s seen in his 40-year career

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