Abusive Husband Who Slit Wife's Throat Jailed for Life

An abusive husband who slit his wife's throat after she left him has been jailed for life. A judge ordered that John Lizanec should serve at least 24 years in prison for murdering mother-of-three Michelle. The judge added: “It is perfectly possible you will never be released.” Lizanec attacked his 44-year-old with a knife after the "happy" and "elated" woman broke free from him after being subjected to years of controlling and derogatory behaviour.

Lizanec cut her throat from ear to ear before jamming her into an airing cupboard at his home and fleeing to his mother's house in Dundee where he sparked a siege after arming himself with another knife. On Thursday, Lord Fairley told him at the High Court in Edinburgh: "The evidence showed you to be an abusive bully and like all bullies you are a coward." The judge said it was only a matter of weeks before Lizanec murdered his wife that she had managed to escape from his coercive behaviour and was in the process of starting a new life. He said the killer's attempts to suggest that his spouse took her own life were "preposterous

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