On a bank holiday evening in 2016, Robert Rhodes turned to his child and said: “Do you want to get rid of Mum?”
Those words, the child recalled years later, were the start of a plot for Rhodes to kill his wife, Dawn, in their Surrey home and cover up her death as an act of defence – of himself and his child.
For years, Rhodes painted himself as a victim of an attack in the killing he planned and covered up.
Described as swift and protective, jurors heard accounts of a father who moved to protect his child from their knife-wielding mother, who lost her life in the skirmish that ensued.
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