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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Andrew Nuttall & Kieran Isgin

Murdered mum-of-four's family praised by judge after listening to killer's 'lies'

The family of a murdered mum have been praised by a judge after they were forced to listen to the "remorseless" killer's lies in court.

Russell Norman James Marsh, of Shotton, Flintshire, was found guilty of murdering his estranged wife and the mother of his four children, Jade March - often known as Jade Ward - during the summer of 2021. Jurors at Mold Crown Court hears how Ward was slashed, stabbed and strangled in the box room of her own home.

Her mutilated body was buried under a pile clothes by the heartless murderer. During the trial, Marsh accepted that his unlawful actions directly resulted in her death by asphyciation. He admitted to police that he had "done something terrible" but still maintained that he was innocent of her murder, North Wales Live reports.

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