Wife killer gets life sentence

A grocer who strangled his wife to death and then feigned shock by screaming and sobbing when he pretended to discover her body has been jailed for at least 18 years. Muhammad Ilyas, 41, killed Maria Chavez, 32, at their home in Ilford, east London, then staged an elaborate cover-up. He went out to meet relatives to set up an alibi and to give an imagined ‘killer’ a chance to come into the house and murder his wife. Ilyas made…