32 years for former prison officer who murdered his wife

An former prison officer who stabbed his wife to death on New Year’s Day and then raped a teenager on her bloodstained bed has been jailed for 32 years. Shane Simmonds, 39, had been planning the attacks for weeks and used Tia Simmonds’s phone to scroll through porn sites as she lay dead under a pile of bedding in the loft extension at their home in Parbury Road, Forest Hill, southeast London. He murdered the 32-year old mother of four…

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