Couple were ‘very happy’ before lockdown slaying

The friend of a wife, bludgeoned to death by her husband during the first lockdown, told a court the couple seemed ‘very happy.’ Bus driver Hussein Egal, 65, allegedly murdered 57-year-old Maryan Ismail at their flat in Edmonton, north London, during the first lockdown last April 6. He attacked his wife with a variety of weapons, including a knife, hammer, meat cleaver, pots, pans, table leg and a ladder. The killer told police a furious row broke out when Maryan…