Bus driver guilty of murder

A jury has found a bus driver — who attacked his wife with a ladder, table leg, and other weapons — guilty of murder.

Hussein Egal, who claimed his wife had threatened to throw him out for having COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), used a variety of household items during his ‘frenzied’ assault on 57-year-old Maryan Ismail.

The 66-year-old admitted carrying out the killing in Edmonton, Greater London, in April 2020, but denied it was murder.

Yesterday, a jury at the Old Bailey, the chief criminal court for England and Wales, took two hours to find Egal guilty.