British Airways captain Robert Brown cleared of murdering millionairess wife Joanna but jailed for 26 years for manslaughter.
Brown, 47, killed his wife in a hammer attack on the doorstep of her sprawling, mock-Tudor mansion near Ascot, following a costly divorce battle.
He wrapped her blood-soaked body in plastic sheeting and buried her in a carefully constructed plastic coffin he had lowered into a quiet corner of a park several weeks earlier.
Yesterday, a jury cleared Brown of murder. But he had earlier admitted manslaughter by means of diminshed responsibility claiming he was suffering extreme stress during the divorce, and yesterday he was also convicted of preventing a coroner from holding an inquest by disposing of a body.
On sentencing him to 26 years' jail, the judge said: You intended to kill and your intention to conceal the body and hide the evidence is clear.
During his eight-day trial, Reading Crown Court heard claims that the airline captain had become consumed with greed, desperate to win a large slice of his wife's fortune, despite having signed a pre-nuptial agreement which prevented him from doing so.
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Brown, 47, killed his wife in a hammer attack on the doorstep of her sprawling, mock-Tudor mansion near Ascot, following a costly divorce battle.
He wrapped her blood-soaked body in plastic sheeting and buried her in a carefully constructed plastic coffin he had lowered into a quiet corner of a park several weeks earlier.
Yesterday, a jury cleared Brown of murder. But he had earlier admitted manslaughter by means of diminshed responsibility claiming he was suffering extreme stress during the divorce, and yesterday he was also convicted of preventing a coroner from holding an inquest by disposing of a body.
On sentencing him to 26 years' jail, the judge said: You intended to kill and your intention to conceal the body and hide the evidence is clear.
During his eight-day trial, Reading Crown Court heard claims that the airline captain had become consumed with greed, desperate to win a large slice of his wife's fortune, despite having signed a pre-nuptial agreement which prevented him from doing so.
Rest of article including 999 call: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...f-murdering-wife-but-jailed-for-26-years.html
