Thomas Nutt has been jailed for murdering his wife Dawn Walker on their wedding night before stuffing her body into a suitcase. Read more:
A man who killed his wife on their wedding night and stuffed her body into a suitcase has been jailed for life.
Nutt strangled Ms Walker just hours after they were married and stored her body in a cupboard before dumping it in bushes behind their home in Shirley Grove, Lightcliffe, near Halifax.Judge Jonathan Rose, sentencing, said: "It remains a mystery why you killed this woman who you had married only hours before you took her life.
Ms Walker was last seen alive by the taxi driver who took her and Nutt back to their home following their wedding on 27 October 2021.The court heard on the night she died Nutt, who had a history of violence towards women, had punched and strangled Ms Walker.Media caption,While he was away he sent a text message to one of Ms Walker's daughters pretending to be her mother in an act of "deception", the judge said.
He then rang police on 31 October to tell them Ms Walker had gone missing and then helped to carry out a search for her, before her body was discovered.
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