R v JAMES; R v KARIMI, COURT OF APPEAL, (CRIMINAL DIVISION) [2006] 1 ALL ER 759
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Leslie Hall James was convicted, at Nottingham Crown Court on May 1 1979, of the murder of his wife, and sentenced to life imprisonment - a plea of provocation having failed. He had stabbed, punched and suffocated her following an argument. On the morning of the killing he had left work and gone to her home carrying a knife he borrowed from a colleague, he said, in order to cut a cork template. After killing her he went back to work returning again to the house during his lunch hour to change the locks. Later that afternoon he collected his daughter from school. The background to this killing was that Mrs James had left the matrimonial home in December 1978 and formed a relationship with another man (Mr Dutfield). The police had been called on several occasions to disturbances between Dutfield, the appellant and Mrs James.
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