"He planned the crime and roped their child, who was under the age of 10, into helping him. In the aftermath, Rhodes spun a web of lies while pretending he inflicted the fatal wound to his wife when she attacked him. The ploy worked, and he was cleared of murder at his Old Bailey trial in 2017. But four years later, his child revealed the truth to a therapist, that they had been manipulated into supporting Rhodes' lies as part of his plan to "get rid of mummy"."
"As well as the murder conviction, Rhodes was found guilty of two counts of perjury for false evidence at his Old Bailey trial and in the Family Courts in 2018, perverting the course of justice, and child cruelty. The murder happened on June 2 2016 when the couple's marriage had hit the rocks and Rhodes had filed for divorce. Police received a 999 call from the child at 7.34pm during which Rhodes said his wife had attacked him and their child with a knife."
Robert Rhodes murdered his wife Dawn in their Redhill home on June 2, 2016, during a marital breakdown after he filed for divorce. He enlisted their child, under ten, to help stage the crime and later fabricated a defence claiming his wife attacked him. He inflicted injuries on himself and the child to support the lie, and was acquitted at the Old Bailey in 2017. Four years later the child told a therapist the truth, prompting a rare double-jeopardy retrial. A jury convicted Rhodes of murder, two counts of perjury, perverting the course of justice and child cruelty. He refused to attend sentencing, maintaining his innocence.
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