‘I thought she would wake up’

A bus driver who claimed he killed his wife because ‘coronavirus made him crazy’ told a court he thought she would wake up after he bludgeoned her to death. Hussein Egal, 66, told police he had attacked 57-year-old Maryan Ismail because she asked him to move out after he caught the bug during the first lockdown last April 6. He set upon his wife with a variety of weapons, including a knife, hammer, meat cleaver, pots, pans, table leg and…

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