man kills wife for changing facebook status to "single"

[one...two...tree 2,762]

15 year difference in age...

Age has nothing to do with it. Some men are control freaks, regardless of age.

It actually sounds a lot like my friend's situation. She was 15 when she met the guy (then 26) who got her pregnant.

I think there's some deviant psychology adult men who deliberately go after teenagers (presumably because they're easy).

Holy cow. Yes, in that case, she's not even an adult.

[NickD 203]

Here's another more complete article on the subject, these people are from the UK!

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A man who murdered his estranged wife after becoming "enraged" when she changed her marital status to single on Facebook was beginning a life sentence in prison today.

Edward Richardson, 41, was convicted of killing 26-year-old Sarah Richardson in a "frenzied and brutal attack" at her parents' home in Biddulph, Staffordshire, on May 12 last year.

Richardson, of Mayfield Road, Biddulph, was given a minimum term of 18 years in jail by a judge at Stafford Crown Court yesterday after a jury found him guilty of murder.

Fiona Cortese, from the Crown Prosecution Service, Staffordshire, said Richardson went to his in-laws' home, where his wife had been living since their separation in April 2008, after she failed to reply to his text messages following her change in status on social networking website Facebook.

She said: "Richardson became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his messages.

"He gained entry by breaking the front door window and made his way into the property.

"Once inside he found Sarah in her bedroom and subjected her to a frenzied and brutal attack with a knife and then attempted to take his own life."

Mrs Richardson's parents, Beryl and Alan Boote, said their daughter's death had "devastated" the family.

In a statement released by police following yesterday's verdict, they said: "There simply aren't the words to describe how Sarah's death, and the awful way in which she died, has affected us. We all miss her so much.

"We're devastated and our lives will never be the way they were.

"It is important that we get justice for the taking of Sarah's life and we hope that Richardson will be an old man before he's ever allowed out of prison.

"Sarah was the loveliest daughter anyone could wish for. She was honest, loyal and sweet and everyone loved her.

"She loved all of her family to bits and to us she will always be precious and special."

Detective Inspector Andy Wall, from Staffordshire Police's Major Investigations Department, said: "She had decided that her marriage to Edward Richardson was over but this was clearly something he could not accept.

"The consequence was that Sarah lost her life in a brutal attack at her husband's hands in her family home.

"The verdict cannot bring Sarah back but we hope that it gives her family some form of comfort.""

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime...ge-1514002.html

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

he tried to save face...book

[Ban Hammer 13,348]

hmmm, england.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

he tried to save face...book

Seriously. That just isn't funny.

Someone died in a really terrible way

Edited January 24, 2009 by Paul Daniels

[luckytxn 2,264]

Internet takes another.

[Jasman0717 9]

Geeze

[Giskat09 2]

sheesh... so immature that guy is - its just a facebook DUH!

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Holy #######. This guy is one serious chopfvck

to the deceased

If things like this don't raise the awareness of domestic violence, I don't know what would.

[rclouse 0]

Send him to Teaxs, we have the cure

How's that working out for ya?

[Saddle Bronc 124]

British version of Bridges TV murder

[panamania79 2]

A man murdered his estranged wife after he became “enraged” that she had changed her marital status to single on the social networking site Facebook.

Edward Richardson, 41, was found guilty of stabbing to death Sarah Richardson, 26, a hairdresser, in her parents’ house in Staffordshire on May 12 last year.

Fiona Cortese of the Crown Prosecution Service said: “Richarsdon became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his messages.”

Stafford Crown Court heard that Richardson, a carpenter from Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent, had sought out Mrs Richardson in her parents house and entered by breaking the front door window.

“Once inside he found Sarah in her bedroom and subjected her to a frenzied and brutal attack with a knife and then attempted to take his own life,” said Ms Cortese.

She said: “We hope that today’s guilty verdict will go some way to easing the pain of Sarah’s friends and family after losing her in such a violent and abrupt way.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481944,00.html

What a psycho !

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

don't mess with ze facebook

It's influence can doom u

[~*Maria*~ 1]

bloody hell

[Nessa 23]

what a ho