A 'possessive' husband has been jailed for a minimum of 25 years after being found guilty of murdering his wife a week after she broke up with him. Russell Marsh, 29, was put behind bars after he savagely assaulted Jade Ward, 27, disfiguring her face with a knife before choking her to death.
Marsh had been told to leave the family home in Shotton, North Wales, after Ms Ward told him that she no longer wanted him in her life. However, he returned to the house uninvited in the early hours of August 26 last year, as their four sons slept and viciously attacked her in a side bedroom.
Marsh drove the children to his parents’ home near Chester before later handing himself in to police. He initially claimed the death was accidental, after he said Ms Ward asked asked him to choke her during sex.
