Overview
- A jury at Inner London Crown Court unanimously found Rhodes guilty of murdering his wife, Dawn, in Redhill, Surrey, on June 2, 2016.
- He was also convicted of two counts of perjury, perverting the course of justice, and child cruelty.
- The case was revived after the child disclosed to a therapist in 2021 that Rhodes coerced them to support a fabricated self‑defence narrative.
- Prosecutors and police said Rhodes staged injuries to himself and cut the child's arm to bolster his story, following a 999 call in which he alleged Dawn was the aggressor.
- His 2017 Old Bailey acquittal was overturned by the Court of Appeal, clearing the way for a rare double‑jeopardy retrial.