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‘Coronavirus made me crazy’: Husband, 66, ‘bludgeoned wife, 57, to death with hammer, table leg and ladder

An enraged husband bludgeoned his wife to death after she asked him to move out because he was struck down with coronavirus, a court heard today.

Hussein Egal, 66, is accused of murdering 57-year-old Maryan Ismail at their flat in Edmonton, north London, during the first lockdown on April 6.

The former bus driver attacked his wife with a knife, hammer, meat cleaver, pots, pans, a table leg and a ladder, the Old Bailey heard.

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