Carpenter gets life for murdering wife- nine years after he was cleared of the crime

A carpenter who cut his wife’s throat from behind in a ‘coup de grace’ after discovering she was having an affair was jailed for at least 29-and-a-half years – nearly a decade after he was cleared of the crime. Robert Rhodes, 52, murdered 38-year-old Dawn Rhodes at their family home in Redhill, Surrey, on June 2 2016 and manipulated their child to cover up for him. The married couple of 21 years were going through a divorce at the time…