I battered his wife to death ‘because Covid made me crazy’

An enraged husband bludgeoned his wife to death after she asked him to move out because he was suffering from coronavirus, a court heard. Hussein Egal, 65, allegedly murdered 57-year-old Maryan Ismail at their flat in Edmonton, north London, during the first lockdown last April 6. Egal attacked his wife with a variety of weapons, including a knife, hammer, meat cleaver, pots, pans, table leg and a ladder. Jurors heard the killer told police a furious row broke out when…