A jealous and controlling husband killed his wife at their Leeds home before fleeing to Scotland to seek refuge in a monastery, a court heard.
Craig Hassall, prosecuting, told the court Mrs Barrott, who worked as a nurse at St James's Hospital in Leeds, had recently told her husband their marriage was over, but they had reconciled about 10 days before her death. Mr Barrott wrote: "I instinctively hit her with a hammer when she pushed me into the bedroom door, which I was trying to fix."
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