38 Year Old Ghanaian Man Jailed For Stabbing His Wife 15 Times
A husband
has been jailed for 17 years after he killed his wife by stabbing her at
least 15 times then running her over with his car because he thought
she was having an affair with a neighbour. Minta
Adiddo sent Akua Agyeman a Christmas card as she was being treated in
hospital, blaming the attack on 'devils', the Old Bailey heard. The 32-year-old mother of two died two months after the brutal stabbing, which was witnessed by her five-year-old daughter.
Adiddo, 38, was today given a life sentence after being convicted of murder, with a minimum term of 17 years.
The Sainsbury's worker from Enfield, North London, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter, although he denied murder. The court heard he suspected his wife was having an affair with their neighbour Oledapo Etti-Williams in October 2012. Mr
Etti-Williams denied it, but said they exchanged three to four
'sometimes flirtatious' texts a day - and phone records showed they had
sometimes sent as many as 80 messages in one day. On
November 5, Adiddo stabbed his wife with a large kitchen knife in their
bedroom while their one-year-old daughter slept in a cot next to them.
She fought
for her life in hospital for nearly two months, but she was so badly
injured that she would have been permanently paralysed if she had
survived. Adiddo
fled the scene but was arrested after police spotted him driving his
car shortly the next day still wearing his blood-stained shirt. In
a phone call to a relative he admitted stabbing his wife and said he
planned to kill himself before police caught up with him.
When Ms
Agyeman was in the the Royal London Hospital, Adiddo sent her a
Christmas card ascribing his behaviour to 'Satan' and 'devils'. 'I
know the devil used Williams to destroy our family,' he wrote. 'Please,
please, please, I need forgiveness from you - open yourself to God.'
In victim
impact statements read to the court, Ms Agyeman's family said the
'vibrant, sociable and intelligent' 32-year-old was 'irreplaceable.' The judge heard her relatives in Ghana were now struggling financially without her support. They
said they had accepted Adiddo as a son and treated him with respect and
dignity 'but all he has done is inflict pain and suffering on our
family'. The
court heard her two daughters are now being cared for by relatives but
the family are 'forever saddened' she won't get to see them grow up.
Sentencing,
judge Brian Barker QC said: 'I accept this was not a planned killing but
was done out of frustration and temper, and in my view was cowardly and
selfish.'This was a shocking waste of a vibrant life and loss of a mother which will be long felt. 'I
was moved by the words of her family who described Akua as a loving
sister, caring for her children and extended family in Ghana, and
providing financially for them.
'They feel
betrayed by your actions and find it very difficult to move on. There is
nothing we can do or say to turn back the clock but she will not be
forgotten.
Source: Dailymail
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