‘Cowardly rage’: Sledgehammer wife killer loses appeal

Man who killed wife with sledgehammer claims loss of control excuses attack

After the attack, he left their former home to buy and drink alcohol without checking his estranged wife’s vital signs.

‘Cowardly rage’: Sledgehammer wife killer loses appeal

A man jailed for murdering his wife with a sledgehammer north of Brisbane has failed to have his conviction overturned.

Man who killed his wife with sledgehammer in 'uncontrolled rage' loses appeal

A man who murdered his wife in a "cowardly rage" by striking her from behind with a 1.8kg sledgehammer has ...

'Uncontrolled rage': sledgehammer killer's appeal fails

A man has argued he had been in such an "uncontrolled rage" when he fatally hit his wife from behind with a sledgehammer that he could not be liable for murder.

‘Uncontrolled rage’: sledgehammer killer’s appeal fails

A man who murdered his wife in a “cowardly rage” by striking her from behind with a 1.8kg sledgehammer has failed to overturn his conviction on appeal. Shaun Robert Sturgess, then aged 54, had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his wife of 17 years Jacqueline at the start of his Queensland Supreme Court trial in February 2024. In April 2020 police found his wife face down in a pool of blood in the house the separated couple had formerly share…