Husband jailed for 25 years over wife murder

Agencies/London

A jilted husband has been jailed for a minimum of 25 years for stabbing his estranged wife to death after arming himself with knives given to them as a wedding present.

A judge told Ty Medland, 26, he was responsible for the “frenzied and savage” murder of Samantha Medland in public.

Medland used one of four knives he concealed on himself to launch the attack on 24-year-old Samantha in central Brighton, East Sussex.

Before the attack, Medland uploaded to his Facebook page a link to a series of graphic pictures and videos of the couple.

A message he wrote accompanying the link referred to Samantha as “the cheating, lying, unloyal woman who destroyed everything I loved and believe in”.

A two-week trial at Lewes Crown Court heard that she had become close to another man and had rebuffed her husband’s repeated attempts to patch up their marriage.

Medland, described as a “petulant, self-centred man” incapable of dealing with rejection, knifed her to death as she collected belongings from him near her workplace in Queen Square, Brighton, on February 17.

Medland, of Cavell Avenue, Peacehaven, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but on Friday he was convicted of murder.

Judge Anthony Scott-Gall said Medland could not accept his estranged wife’s decision that their marriage was over.

The judge said: “I am satisfied, as were the jury, that you couldn’t accept this rejection, added to which was the suggestion in your mind that your wife had started a relationship with another man.”