Rhys Hancock: Last News

A "sadistic" husband has been jailed for murdering his estranged wife and her new partner in a New Year's Day "bloodbath".Rhys Hancock told his mother he wanted to kill Helen Hancock, 39, and Martin Griffiths, 48, before travelling to the home he used to share with his wife in Derbyshire and stabbing the pair with two kitchen knives.A court heard how he then rang the police, 15 minutes after his mother had warned officers of his intentions, and said: “I’ve just murdered my wife in her bed."The jealous husband had inflicted 66 injuries on his wife and 37 on Mr Griffiths in the attack, Derby Crown Court heard.Hancock was found by police outside the house in a blood-stained shirt where he said to an officer: “I’m hardly going to deny it; look

A jealous husband called 999 to say "I've just murdered my wife in her bed" and "there's blood everywhere" after killing her and her new lover in a New Year's Day "bloodbath".

A couple stabbed to death by the woman’s headmaster ex had seemed “deeply in love”, a friend has said.