UK man jailed for life for stabbing PIO wife 59 times

LONDON: A man in the UK has been sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing to death his Indian-origin wife following a row on Christmas last year. Laurens Brand, 47, who was charged with murder, used two kitchen knives to repeatedly stab his 41-year-old wife, Angela Mittal, in 2018.
He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years and 8 months’ jail. Angela had suffered 59 stab wounds to her neck and chest and died on the spot at their Berkshire home.
Sentencing Brand, the court’s judge said: “At some point in the course of the attack, one knife broke. You went to the kitchen, fetched another knife and then returned... This was a brutal assault.”