Catherine Gowing murder: Killer Clive Sharp sentencing 25 February 2013 Last updated at 06:58 The killer of the Irish vet Catherine Gowing is due to be sentenced at Mold Crown Court later. In January Clive Sharp, 46, from Gwynedd, admitted murdering Ms Gowing, 37, who was originally from Kinnitty, County Offaly. She disappeared from her home in New Brighton, Flintshire, in October. It led to the largest search operation ever undertaken by North Wales Police, before her remains were found at sites in Sealand and Chester. The judge, Mr Justice Griffith-Williams, has already told Sharp he will receive a life sentence for the murder. But he adjourned sentencing to consider whether there would be a minimum tariff that must be served before Sharp could be considered for parole. The judge told Sharp at the earlier hearing: "There is only one sentence I can pass on you for this offence, as you will know. I have to work out what the minimum term you will serve is before the Parole Board consider you for release - if you are ever to be released. Ms Gowing was described as a "very dear and gentle person" by those she worked with for 18 months at a veterinary surgery in Mold. She was last seen alive on the evening of Friday, 12 October, 2012, when she was spotted on CCTV leaving a supermarket in Queensferry. Her burned-out Renault Clio was found near a disused quarry near her home in New Brighton, near Mold, a week later. Teams of 40 specially trained police officers and underwater divers spent nearly three weeks searching for her, before the first human remains were uncovered at a shallow pond in Sealand. The location was close to where Sharp had once lived with his mother. Two days later, more remains were found at the River Dee in Higher Ferry, Chester. DNA testing revealed that the remains belonged to Ms Gowing. More than 300 people attended a funeral for her in Kinnitty in January. Ms Gowing's sister Emma told mourners she was "the closest person to perfection that I had the privilege to know and love." Members of Ms Gowing's family are expected to be at Mold Crown Court for the sentencing.