Killer husband jailed for stabbing wife 300 times in 'episode of unspeakable and barbaric savagery'

10.04.2021 - 00:41 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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A jealous husband killed his wife by stabbing her 300 times in "an episode of unspeakable and barbaric savagery", a judge said.

George Leather, 60, used four different knives to inflict around 100 wounds to the face and head of the woman he had been married to for 34 years.

Paula Leather, 56, was unrecognisable when she was found dead at their home in Prescot, Merseyside, in November last year, Liverpool

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