Man killed wife in Facebook row

A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook.

Wayne Forrester, 34, told police he was devastated that his wife Emma, also 34, had changed her online profile to "single" days after he had moved out.

The Old Bailey heard Forrester drove to her home in Croydon, south London, and attacked the mother-of-two.

He stabbed her with a kitchen knife and a meat cleaver on 18 February.

Forrester, who pleaded guilty to murder, was ordered to serve a minimum term of 14 years.

Judge Brian Barker, the Common Serjeant of London, told him: "You committed a terrible act. There is no possible excuse or justification.

"This is a tragic killing and what you have done has caused untold anguish."

Forrester, an HGV driver, was drunk and high on cocaine when he attacked the mother of two in the early hours as she slept.

He beat her, tore out clumps of her hair, and repeatedly stabbed her in the head and neck.

Neighbours were woken up by her screams. They found him sitting outside the house covered in blood and called the police.

The court heard Forrester thought his wife, a payroll administrator, was having an affair and had threatened to kill her.

The couple, who had been together for 15 years, had a "volatile" marriage, jurors were told.

'Devastated and humiliated'

The day before the murder, he called her parents and complained about his wife's Facebook entry which he said "made her look like a fool", the court heard.

In a statement to police Forrester said: "Emma and I had just split up. She forced me out.

"She then posted messages on an internet website telling everyone she had left me and was looking to meet other men.

"I loved Emma and felt totally devastated and humiliated about what she had done to me."

In a victim impact statement, Mrs Forrester's sister Liza Rothery said the murder had had a "devastating" impact on her and parents Frances and Robert.

Miss Rothery added: "What on earth could Emma have done to result in such a brutal, callous attack on a defenceless woman?"


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7676285.stm

This is hella funny!

Oh spare me the holier than thou why are you laughing speech. It is FUNNY.

It's sad she died but come on. . . over a Facebook Status??

Jeez! Facebook users. . . you've been warned.

This is hella funny! Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

Oh spare me the holier than thou why are you laughing speech. It is FUNNY.

It's sad she died but come on. . . over a Facebook Status??

Jeez! Facebook users. . . you've been warned.

I don't have a Facebook but I now how my friends obsess about it. I had a friend that made her status single and took down all their pictures together as soon as he wanted to "take a break." The next day guys were hitting on her. Yes, people take it too seriously though cocain and alcohol does make it worse. I think it is kinda funny too how people overreact about a website to post pictures, like its a life line.

Sisikill:


This is hella funny!

Oh spare me the holier than thou why are you laughing speech. It is FUNNY.

It's sad she died but come on. . . over a Facebook Status??

Jeez! Facebook users. . . you've been warned.

Why couldn't she just switch to 'It's complicated' first . . . before 'Single'??

savanaha:

I don't have a Facebook but I now how my friends obsess about it. I had a friend that made her status single and took down all their pictures together as soon as he wanted to "take a break." The next day guys were hitting on her. Yes, people take it too seriously though cocain and alcohol does make it worse. I think it is kind of funny too how people overreact about a website to post pictures, like its a life line.

Honestly! It's pure madness. . . I can't count how many Facebook "fights" have had to listen to with my cousins and their friends. Why did you write on his wall, when you know I kinda like him? I put him on my superwall, that should have given you a clue. . .duh! Now taking someone off your friend's list tells you how grave their offense is.

Jeebus!!

and they say NYers are psychotic.

eldee:

Why couldn't she just switch to 'It's complicated' first . . . before 'Single'??

Tee hee hee. . .  looks like you are an expert in the 'ol status thingy, eh?

KarmaMod:

and they say NYers are psychotic.

Bwahahaha! Yeah, at least they kill for a legit reason, like an old pair of timberlands

old ke?

Nooo they only shank people over new shoes oh

oh stepping on white sneakers is another grave sin

Sisikill:

Tee hee hee. . .  looks like you are an expert in the 'ol status thingy, eh?

Apparently . . .

Married: When you're in a serious relationship
In a relationship: When you're actually single but need to get attention, no guy wants a chic that other guys don't like
It's complicated: Gets you the pity you need . . . it's like 'I tried my best, it's not working'
Single: Switch to single and it gets all the attention

So everyone with "in a relationship" isnt in one?

Btw it's creepy that you know facebook like that eldee

KarmaMod:

So everyone with "in a relationship" isnt in one?

Apparently . . . why do you think people always switch status' every week??
C'mon, no news sells like bad news . . . ask Amy Winehouse

KarmaMod:

between it's creepy that you know facebook like that eldee

Oi . . . at least it's saved my neck from getting shanked a couple of times
Emma Forester didn't do her homework well . . . that's not how I want to end up . . . nah!!!
She's not even going to make Daily Mirror's front page

KarmaMod:

old ke?

Nooo they only shank people over new shoes oh

oh stepping on white sneakers is another grave sin

So what are you saying. . . bring only my brown Nikes coz I hear they spit on 'em Nikes over there, apparently it's not kosher enough for New Yorkers?

eldee:

Apparently . . . why do you think people always switch status' every week??
C'mon, no news sells like bad news . . . ask Amy Winehouse
Oi . . . at least it's saved my neck from getting shanked a couple of times
Emma Forester didn't do her homework well . . . that's not how I want to end up . . . nah!!!
She's not even going to make Daily Mirror's front page

Oh Come on! The Daily Mail will do that? Don't tell me they'd rather have anothr Princess Di sighting?

Poor Em ^{Do you think we are moving towards cold hearted morbidness here?}

na wa
Unlike the poster,I don't find the stabbing of an innocent woman funny at all

Sisikill:

Oh Come on! The Daily Mail will do that? Don't tell me they'D rather have anothr Princess Di sighting?

Nah . . . thing is, she chose a wrong time to make this deadly mistake
Why did she have to choose now, when Guy and Madonna are trading words before this 50 mil divorce??
Even if Madonna farts now . . . she's getting another front page story

Sisikill:

Poor Em ^{Do you think we are moving towards cold hearted morbidness here?}

^{Come . . . you started it na}

plus_Queen:

na wa
Unlike the poster,I don't find the stabbing of an innocent woman funny at all

You sound exactly like my sister. She gave me the "Are you sick" look. Honestly, I'm not laughing at the woman's death, really I'm not. It's the idiot husband who claims he was humilated over a facebook status that is funny. . . I mean Facebook? Aah, I guess it does take a warped mind to you know. . .

eldee:

Nah . . . thing is, she chose a wrong time to make this deadly mistake
Why did she have to choose now, when Guy and Madonna are trading words before this 50 mil divorce??
Even if Madonna farts now . . . she's getting another front page story

500 million. . . 500 freaking million and Madonna got to do is blink.

^{Come . . . you started it na}

Guess we should stop now. . . ?

plus_Queen:

na wa
Unlike the poster,I don't find the stabbing of an innocent woman funny at all

niether do I. I find nothing funny about that

this is so serious!
It's so bad, i mean,
i pity both of them

Pity him? Why. . . she's the one who is dead over something as stupid as changing her status on facebook.

Facebook. . . FACEBOOK!! Like seriously? It's madness I tells ya!

rokiatu:

niether do I. I find nothing funny about that

Oy!

Sisikill:

Oy!

what is funny about a man murdering his wife
over such thing?

some pple take facebook and d internet way too seriously. . .

HR.hotness:

some people take facebook and d internet way too seriously. . .

The man was pissed over something silly. . . . .
Now he is facing life imprisonment with no possibility of a parole.
He is a BEAST.

frankly not sure if i should laugh or be sad at this one . its riduculous is the best I can muster at the moment

if he had caught her with another man, he could have demolished her with a kalashinkov.

read that this morning and was like sad

Hope my naija brothers won't learn it as the in thing cos everything that comes from britian is golden It is the civil way of doing things

agaba123:

if he had caught her with another man, he could have demolished her with a kalashinkov.

read that this morning and was like sad

Hope my naija brothers won't learn it as the in thing because everything that comes from britian is golden It is the civil way of doing things

Naija brovas are not that inclined.
There are many pebbles on the beach for us. . . . . If one goes bad, there are 30 other ones ready to move in!!!
So much for our overpopulation.

Ridiculous is an understatement! D man must be a pyscho. What do u expect anyway, he is under the influence . . .

True why try and rationalize the behaviour of a man that was high . For all those weed heads and coke heads out there this could be you

~Sauron~:

Naija brovas are not that inclined.
There are many pebbles on the beach for us. . . . . If one goes bad, there are 30 other ones ready to move in!!!
So much for our overpopulation.

MY brova I hope soo. What I have read from naija brovas here in nl makes me think they believe everything british is golden

i dont find it funny at all, its a sad occurence and not about facebook,the dead wife would have brought out similar outrage in the guy by group texting all his friends that she was single,wonder how y all can justify him being a psycho when he was obviously high on cocaine and alcohol, ciminologists on nland

This is a call-out to the women out there. There are far more reasonable and sensible men in town than going for coke head and crack maniacs who treat them like shit.

WYSIWYG

@ poster

I dont understand how laughter found its way into this matter.
You projected a sickening and pathetic story and laughed at the end.
Xplain the idea. Is it a hyperbole or simile or which of those concepts?

@ post
No excuse in the world is enough for that murderer. They should allow
the drunkeness to wear away very well then make him suffer before they
send him to go and face God. This is where all those who even harbor the
thought of beating ladies are headed.