WA wife killer acquitted on unsound mind

By Michael Ramsey
Updated October 22 2020 - 7:31pm, first published 7:29pm
Upendra Ihalahewa admitted to killing his wife but argued he was not criminally responsible.
Upendra Ihalahewa admitted to killing his wife but argued he was not criminally responsible.

A Perth man who was in the grips of a "calamitous eruption" of psychosis when he repeatedly stabbed his wife has been acquitted of her murder on grounds of insanity.

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