Man jailed for life for killing Indian-origin wife in UK
A man in the UK has been sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing to death his Indian-origin wife following a row on the Christmas day last year.
Laurens Brand, 47, who was charged with murder, used two kitchen knives to repeatedly stab his 41-year-old wife Angela Mittal in 2018.
He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years and eight months' imprisonment at a sentencing hearing at Reading Crown Court on Friday.
Angela had suffered 59 stab wounds to her neck and chest and died at the scene at their home in Shinfield, Berkshire.
Sentencing Brand, Judge Heather Norton said: "You stabbed your wife in the bedroom of the family home. Your attack on her was ferocious. You stabbed your wife no fewer than 59 times.
"At some point in the course of that attack, one knife broke. You left the room, you went to the kitchen, you fetched another knife and then returned".
The court heard that the forensic evidence suggests that the victim was alive and struggling to defend herself ...