'Facebook murderer' jailed for life.

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

Edward Richardson, aged 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 after a jury found him guilty of murder.

Fiona Cortese, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said Richardson went to his in-laws' home, where his wife had been living since their separation in April 2008, and broke the front door window to get in. He attacked Sarah with a knife and then attempted to take his own life.

Mrs Richardson's devastated parents, Beryl and Alan Boote, said: "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 is ever allowed out of prison."

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