Wife killer who tried to blame Covid books life sentence

A bus driver who tried to blame the Covid virus after he battered his wife to death in a frenzied rage is facing a life sentence. Hussein Egal, 65, attacked 57-year-old Maryan Ismail with a knife, hammer, meat cleaver, pots, pans, table leg and even smashed a ladder onto her back. He claimed he attacked her when she told him to leave their home after he thought he had contracted the virus. Egal then pretended to be mentally ill to…