A 41-year-old man from North West, who fatally stabbed his pregnant wife with scissors in 2022, has successfully overturned his life imprisonment sentence. The father confessed and pleaded guilty to murdering his wife, admitting he intended to kill her.
The father was found to have killed the deceased in 'a brutal fashion in full view' of their children in 2022.A 41-year-old man from North West , who fatally stabbed his pregnant wife with scissors, has successfully overturned his life imprisonment sentence.The father was found to have killed the deceased in “a brutal fashion in full view” of their children in 2022.
He also admitted that he had not acted in self-defense, as his wife was unarmed and posed no threat to his life. Instead, the prosecution submitted a postmortem report and a photo album depicting the wounds on the deceased. Referring to several prior court cases, they concluded that TEM’s guilty plea provided “no proof” of premeditation.“As such, there was no evidence before the trial court that the murder of the deceased – heinous as it was – was ‘planned’ or ‘premeditated’,” the judgment reads.
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