"A husband who stabbed his wife to death has been jailed for life, after their child came forward with new evidence to reveal his plan to get rid of mummy. Robert Rhodes, 52, murdered Dawn in the kitchen of their family home in 2016 after discovering she had been having an affair with a work colleague, and that their marriage was over."
"In order to cover up his crimes, he wounded their young child, who was under the age of 10, and manipulated them into helping him by pretending that Dawn had been the one to attack them both, and he had acted in self-defence. His ploy initially succeeded as he was acquitted of murder following his Old Bailey trial in 2017, but his web of lies came undone after his child confessed the true events to a therapist."
"Rhodes has now been jailed for a minimum term of 29 years and six months following a rare double jeopardy trial at Inner London Crown Court, where he was also found guilty of two counts of perjury for false evidence at his Old Bailey trial and in the Family Courts in 2018, perverting the course of justice, and child cruelty."
"The traumatic experience Robert Rhodes has put me through will never go away. The scar Robert Rhodes left me with when he sliced open my forearm will never go away. My scar is a constant reminder of what Robert Rhodes has done to me."
Robert Rhodes stabbed and killed his wife, Dawn, in the kitchen of their Redhill home in 2016 after discovering she had been having an affair and that their marriage was over. He wounded their child, under the age of 10, and manipulated the child into falsely portraying Dawn as the attacker, leading to his acquittal at the Old Bailey in 2017. The child later told a therapist the true events, prompting a rare double jeopardy retrial. Rhodes was convicted of murder, two counts of perjury, perverting the course of justice and child cruelty, and jailed for a minimum of 29 years and six months.
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