Sharon Edwards (pictured) was jailed for life for murdering her husband
A bullying wife who knifed her lawyer husband to death just two months after they got married in Law Vegas has lost an appeal to clear her name.
Sharon Edwards, 44, was jailed for life for murdering 51-year-old solicitor David Edwards after he was made redundant.
A jury heard that she attacked her husband following a long campaign of bullying at their home in Chorley, Lancashire.
The mother-of-four denied murder but was convicted of murder and was jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years.
Jurors were told that Edwards ‘liked the idea of being a solicitor’s wife’, and that when her husband lost his job, their already rocky relationship deteriorated further.
And according to the Manchester Evening News, she took her case to the Court of Appeal and claimed that her husband walked into the knife.
However, three senior judges rejected her bid to overturn her conviction.
Lady Justice Hallett said: ‘The central evidence in this case was that Sharon Edwards was holding the knife which caused the stab wound to her husband’s chest, from which he died.
‘There is no merit whatsoever in the grounds of appeal which she has advanced and we refuse leave to appeal.’
Her trial at Manchester Crown Court heard Mr Edwards had been the victim of ‘forceful bullying’ during the ‘turbulent’ year-long relationship.
This torment culminated in him being fatally stabbed in the heart with a kitchen knife on August 23 2015. Just two months before they tied the knot in Nevada.
The trial heard that the killing was to be the second attack in as many successive days in which Edwards had used a knife in anger against Mr Edwards – who she knew would never fight back or call the police.
After he was found dead, Mr Edwards’s bruised and cut body revealed the extent of the regular assaults.
The pair had just got married in Las Vegas and she ended up killing him at their home in Chorley
A black-handled kitchen knife measuring 13ins in length and stained with blood was found at their home
He had 60 external injuries, of which 30 were incised or prod wounds, including stab wounds to his thigh, knee, finger and a shallow wound to his scalp.
A black-handled kitchen knife measuring 13ins in length and stained with blood was found at their home, where torn up wedding photographs were also discovered.
Mr Justice Davis said Mr Edwards was ‘a hugely valued member of the community in Chorley and elsewhere’.
The judge added: ‘This deadly attack was the culmination of long-term bullying by you on this respected member of the community.’
He said he accepted that she did not intend to kill him but that she certainly meant to cause really serious harm.