Welsh pensioner jailed for killing wife during first lockdown

On Thursday he appeared for sentencing at Swansea Crown Court in Wales after admitting manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility

Ruth Williams was killed by his husband Anthony at their south Wales home in March last year. Picture: Gwent Police/PA

A pensioner who strangled his wife days into the first UK lockdown has been sentenced to five years in jail.

Anthony Williams, 70, told police he “literally choked the living daylights” out of his wife Ruth, 67, at their home in Cwmbran, south Wales, on the morning of March 28 last year, after he “snapped” following a period of feeling depressed and anxious.