Conrad Iyayi stabbed his wife seven times in the chest and later claimed he thought he had killed her in a dream.
A man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 18 years for murdering his wife in their kitchen as their son slept upstairs.
Iyayi, 46, had already admitted manslaughter but pleaded guilty to murder on the second day of his trial at Derby Crown Court on August 2.Sentencing him at the same court on Friday, Judge Shaun Smith KC said the attack was “determined and sustained”.“In truth, only two people know what happened. He said: “At the time of the murder, the couple’s 11-year-old son, Theo, was asleep in his bedroom upstairs, but mercifully it does not appear that he was disturbed by what his father was doing to his mother elsewhere in the house.”
Ms Harris was pronounced dead at the scene, with Theo awoken and removed from the house and Iyayi arrested.“He said it all felt like a dream and the situation, in his words, was ‘crazy’. He claimed that the substance had an unanticipated effect, which led him to believe he had taken a “mind-altering” hallucinogenic and had murdered his wife in a dream, only to discover her body hours later.
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