A man who fatally stabbed his wife and chillingly manipulated their young child in a calculated attempt to escape justice is now due to be sentenced. Robert Rhodes, 52, killed his wife, Dawn, in the kitchen of their family home in 2016. The attack followed the breakdown of their marriage, exacerbated by his discovery of her affair with a colleague.
Rhodes meticulously planned the crime, involving their child, who was under the age of 10, in his scheme. In the aftermath, he fabricated a story, alleging he inflicted the fatal wound during a self-defence struggle. This deception initially proved successful, resulting in his acquittal for murder at his Old Bailey trial in 2017.
