Overview
- Mrs Justice Ellenbogen is due to set the minimum term today at Inner London Crown Court following the automatic life sentence for murder.
- A jury convicted Rhodes in December after the Court of Appeal quashed his earlier acquittal and authorised a second trial.
- Alongside murder, he was found guilty of two counts of perjury, perverting the course of justice, and child cruelty.
- Prosecutors said the child described coaching to maintain a false self‑defence story and secret phone messages left by Rhodes while on bail.
- Dawn Rhodes was found with her throat cut in the family’s Redhill, Surrey kitchen after a 999 call, with evidence that Rhodes injured himself and cut the child’s arm to support his lies.