A territorial army soldier who made a "public spectacle" of stabbing his wife 33 times in front of their young son and neighbours was jailed for life for the second time yesterday. However, on this occasion he was told that he would serve at least 15 years before being considered for release.
However, for Mr Robert Walker, the father of the murdered woman, Zara McCandless (32), the 15-year term was not enough. Speaking outside Belfast Crown Court, where where former soldier Trevor McCandless (38) was convicted of her murder for the second time, following a retrial, Mr Walker declared: "I don't think he should ever be allowed out for what he did to my daughter."
Lord Justice McCollum described McCandless as an "inadequate" with serious personality problems who had not been able to accept that his marriage was over.