A MAN jailed for killing his wife six weeks after she gave birth to their third child has had his sentence reduced.
Richard Davies Jones was found slumped on top of his wife, Laura, in blood-soaked snow outside their home in December 2010. The lawyer and former army captain, of Woodfield Lane, Ashtead, was found guilty of stabbing her to death and handed a life sentence with a 20-year minimum term at Guildford Crown Court in July 2011.
But on May 2 at London's Court of Appeal, Mr Justice King, Lord Justice McCombe and Judge Clement Goldstone cut the minimum term to 18 years.
At the 2011 trial, the court heard police received a call from Davies Jones on December 1, 2010, saying: "There has been a stabbing. My wife stabbed me. I stabbed her. She is not moving."
Both of the couple suffered stab wounds after Mrs Davies Jones threatened to leave her husband over an affair he was having.
Speaking to police after his arrest, Davies Jones claimed his wife threatened to kill him, the children and herself.
He claimed the social worker had stabbed herself repeatedly in the neck but the jury unanimously found him guilty of murder.
