Man Stabs Ex-Wife To Death Because She Said He Was Not the Father of Their Oldest Child

Ernest Davenport was on Friday, November 6, sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter by Liverpool Crown Court. The 65-year-old reportedly flew into rage after Susan, 63, claimed son Mark was not his, stabbing her twice in the chest. He then rang 999 and told an operator said: “I think I’ve killed my wife.”

Liverpool Crown Court heard how the couple’s other son Michael stumbled upon the gruesome scene after turning up for his regular weekly visit to see his father in Bury, Greater Manchester. As he tended to his mother, Davenport told him: “We had a Barney.”

The victim suffered two stab wounds to her chest, one which had severed two major arteries and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The couple, who were married for more than 40 years and had three children, were described as “hard working, law abiding people”. But Mrs. Davenport left her husband in 2011 and set home with another man in Chorley, Lancs.

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