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KILLER SON GOES FREE
Probation for youth who stabbed father ‘
‘Mr. Mustard’ is jailed
House proud husband snapped over supper
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Mild-mannered Thomas Corlett, the houseproud husband who strangled his wife
after a row over a tube of mustard, was jailed for three years yesterday after denying
murdering his wife.
It took the jury just ten minutes to find the 58-year-old balding civil servant not
guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished
responsibility.
Corlett, described as a man of ‘impeccable character’, had gradually taken over
the household chores during his 26-year marriage, including cooking and cleaning.
After his wife became ill with asthma, their relationship had deteriorated.
Medical witnesses at the trial said Corlett was like a house- proud housewife
with a craving for perfection. A pent-up rage built up in him over his wife’s
untidiness. His wife started going on holidays with a friend, never asking if he
wanted to join them and never telling him when she would be back. In 1985 she
forgot to send him a birthday card for the first time. Five weeks later the trivial row
over the mustard led to her death.
The snapping point came when the couple sat down to a supper of sausages,
green beans and mashed potatoes at their home in Middlesex on December 12, 1985.
On the spot on the table where he 40 normally put his newspaper was a tube of
German mustard. He moved it. His wife, Erika, 63, picked it up and slammed it down
in its original place. During the quarrel Erika stood up and started flailing her arms.
Corlett grabbed her by the throat and the couple fell to the floor. Corlett called an
ambulance when she fell unconscious but minutes later Mrs. Corlett was dead.
Defence counsel David Farrington handed over a glowing reference from
Corlett’s boss. The barrister said that Corlett would be extremely unlikely to offend
again, and asked for him to be sent home, Judge Gerald Butler accepted that Corlett
acted out of character but said that he could not take the lenient course being urged
upon him.
(from the Daily Male)
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Sixteen-year-old Peter Stone went free yesterday after admitting killing his
father with a homemade knife.
He stepped in as his were arguing one night and stabbed him through the heart.
He told the police, ‘He hit my Mum in the face. When was younger he used. to hit her
and I could do nothing.’ But after his arrest the catering student said of his father, ‘He
always loved me.’

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