Wife killer who tried to blame Covid will do 22 years in jail

A bus driver who tried to blame the Covid virus after he battered his wife to death in a frenzied rage was jailed for at least 22 years. 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…