A bus driver killed his wife in a “frenzied” attack and then claimed she threatened him for having Covid-19, a court has heard.
Hussein Egal, 66, allegedly used a variety of household items including a table leg and ladder during the brutal attack on 57-year-old Maryan Ismail.
He has admitted carrying out the killing during the lockdown in early April last year but denied it was murder.
On Wednesday, prosecutor Allison Hunter QC described the scene at the victim’s home in Edmonton.
She told jurors it was a “brutal, frenzied, sustained attack involving the use of a hammer, a knife or knives, pots and pans, a table leg and a ladder plunged repeatedly into her back, chest, legs and head”.
Mrs Ismail, a school cleaner, was found partially naked on the floor of the blood-splattered lounge.
An examination identified 68 sites of injuries all over her body, the Old Bailey heard.
They included multiple slash and stab wounds to her face, head and the entire length of her body, Ms Hunter said.
The Somalian defendant had offered a number of explanations for the killing.
On arrival at Wood Green police station, Egal allegedly told the officer who opened the van door that he had coronavirus and he should stay away from him.
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