STORY: Husband Hacked Wife To Death With Meat Cleaver After She Changed Facebook Status To Single!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:10 pm

A husband who hacked his wife to death with a meat cleaver in
fury over her Facebook entry was jailed for a minimum of 14 years at
the Old Bailey today.

Wayne Forrester, 34, drank alcohol and took cocaine before driving
15 miles to the family home to attack wife Emma as she lay in bed.

The couple had separated four days before the murder in February and
Forrester later told police he had been provoked by his wife changing
her marital status to "single" on her Facebook entry, the court heard.

Forrester, a HGV driver, admitted murder in February this year in New Addington, near Croydon.

Emma was found in a pool of blood after neighbours were woken at 6.30am
by her screams. Near her body was a large kitchen knife and in another
room a blood-soaked meat cleaver.

Jailing him for life, the Common Serjeant of London Brian Barker QC
said: "Your wife ended the relationship. Your reaction was one of anger
and resentment.

"There is no possible excuse or justification.

"This is a tragic killing of a young woman and what you have done has called untold anguish."

The court heard that the Forresters had a "volatile and unstable
marriage characterised by periods of separation and reconciliation".

Alex Lewis, prosecuting, said that while Forrester was in and out of
work and cared little for family life, his wife took two jobs to make
ends meet.

Her parents supported the pair financially and moved home closer to them to help their daughter.

Four days before the murder Forrester moved out of the family home to
stay with his sister in Paddington. He repeatedly called home and
threatened to kill her.

Ms Lewis said: "He was angry about an entry on Facebook he said made
him look like a fool as she had advertised her marital status as
single. He accused her of having an affair."

STORY: Husband Hacked Wife To Death With Meat Cleaver After She Changed Facebook Status To Single!!!!!!! FUCKYOUPAYMEMOSTUNDERRATEDOVERWORKEDUNDERPAID

Forrester drove to Croydon armed with the knife and meat cleaver
and forced the front door open. After neighbours called 999 he emerged
from the house covered in blood and holding a carton of juice.

When the police arrived he held his arms out for handcuffs and told them: "Who called you? My wife is in there. I killed her."

Inside the house they found Mrs Forrester's body with a large wound
in her neck. Two bannister rails had been broken off and there were
clumps of long brown hair outside the bedroom.

She had multiple wounds to her neck and head and defence wounds to her arms showing she had fought to ward off the blows.

Forrester later handed detectives a prepared statement in which he
said: "She forced me out of the family home and posted messages on the
internet website telling everybody she had left me and was interested
in meeting other men."

He went on: "The whole incident seemed a blur. I felt I was watching somebody else attacking Emma."

In an impact statement the victim's sister Eliza Rothery said the family had been devastated by the murder.

Peter Dahlsen, defending, said Forrester felt "a deeply held remorse".