Latest: All the hostages held by a man armed with a knife at a Job Centre Plus in Newcastle are believed to have been released, Northumbria Police said.

A man has been jailed for at least 22 years for attacking his disabled wife with a metal table leg and then decapitating her with a kitchen knife in an act described by a UK judge as “perfect barbarity”.

A man admitted decapitating his wife when he appeared in a British court today.