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Soldier's 'revenge'

A SOLDIER took revenge on his wife after she left him for another man by stabbing her eight times with a 10-inch hunting knife he called 'the grim reaper' before raping her as she lay dying, a court was told. Patrick Gavin, 22, denies the murder of Sharon Gavin, 22, of Sherwood, Nottingham. The trial continues.

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