Overview
- He changed his plea to guilty on the first day his murder trial was due to begin at Northampton Crown Court after previously admitting manslaughter but denying murder.
- Isobella “Izzy” Knight, 32, was strangled on June 13, 2025, at the family’s Burton Latimer home while the couple’s two daughters slept, according to police and a post-mortem examination.
- The next morning he asked his mother to take the children, then attempted to end his own life and crashed his car in a nearby McDonald’s car park, prompting police to search the home where they found her body.
- Judge Adrienne Lucking said life imprisonment is mandatory for murder and she will determine the minimum term before parole eligibility.
- Detective Chief Inspector Torie Harrison called it a tragic case of violence against a woman and said the guilty plea spares the family the ordeal of a trial, as relatives paid tribute to Izzy as a loving mother and talented artist.