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Stanley Murphy-Johns

Woman killed husband by ‘stabbing and slicing’ over 50 times with samurai sword

Jurors at Lewes Crown Court were told they must determine whether Joanna Rowland-Stuart’s actions were unlawful (Tom Pugh/PA) - (PA Archive)

A woman killed her husband with a samurai sword, “stabbing and slicing him” more than 50 times before replacing the sword in its sheath on a stand, a court heard.

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, has been deemed “unfit to plead” to the murder of her husband Andrew Rowland-Stuart, 69, in their 15th-floor flat in Lavender Street in Brighton, on May 27 last year.

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