Ex-soldier hacked wife to death in street with Gurkha knife in front of neighbours and children
dailyrecord.co.ukCourt was told on Friday. The judge heard that the defendant told neighbours who tried in vain to help Mrs Woodhall "She deserved it" and that she had been winding him up all day.The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC, said Woodhall struck his wife with multiple blows from a kukri machete, stepping away at times and coming back to inflict more terrible injuries before driving off.Judge Richardson said the whole incident was caught on CCTV but the "chilling" footage was too disturbing to be shown in court.He told the defendant he "brutally and relentlessly stabbed her with the kukri," saying she was lying on the ground, "defenceless against the ferocity of your attack with the murderous weapon".The judge said the "unrelenting.
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