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08/03/2012
Man Given Life For Wife's Murder
A man who stabbed his wife to death last year has been jailed for life after pleading guilty to the murder today.
Fifty-two-year-old Gerard O’Kane admitted to murdering his estranged wife Ann Marie O’Kane in May last year.
Mrs O’Kane’s body was found with multiple stab wounds at a flat in Northview just off the Antrim road in Belfast.
Mr O’Kane, from Hollybrook Avenue in Newtownabbey had been remanded in custody until the end of April.
The Judge presiding over the trial told Belfast Crown Court today that only one sentence could be handed down for the crime and that was life imprisonment.
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Fifty-two-year-old Gerard O’Kane admitted to murdering his estranged wife Ann Marie O’Kane in May last year.
Mrs O’Kane’s body was found with multiple stab wounds at a flat in Northview just off the Antrim road in Belfast.
Mr O’Kane, from Hollybrook Avenue in Newtownabbey had been remanded in custody until the end of April.
The Judge presiding over the trial told Belfast Crown Court today that only one sentence could be handed down for the crime and that was life imprisonment.
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