Man who killed wife with sledgehammer in ‘cowardly rage’ loses bid to overturn conviction

A man who murdered his wife in a “cowardly rage” by striking her from behind with a 1.8kg sledgehammer has failed to overturn his conviction on appeal.

Shaun Robert Sturgess, then aged 54, had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his wife of 17 years, Jacqueline, at the start of his