A Coleraine man who stabbed his wife 33 times in front of their young son and neighbours was jailed for life today.
The judge ruled he must serve at least 15 years before being considered for release.
Trevor McCandless was convicted of murdering his wife Zara for the second time following a retrial.
Jailing him, Lord Justice McCollum described 38-year-old McCandless as an "inadequate" with serious personality problems who couldn't accept his marriage was over and who "made a public spectacle of this cruel murder".
McCandless was originally jailed in April 1999 for stabbing his 32-year-old wife Zara outside their Riversdale Crescent home in Coleraine in front of their eight-year-old son and neighbours who'd been awoken by her screams in the early hours of May 14th 1998.
During his trials McCandless said he couldn't remember stabbing his wife, claiming that he was drunk at the time and that his wife had provoked him while he was suffering from an "abnormality of mind".