THE 44-year-old man found guilty of stabbing his wife to death was told by High Court judge Justice Salesi Temo that he has deprived his four children from being raised by their mother.
Justice Temo told Sailasa Mociu yesterday that his children would no longer have the chance to be raised by their parents after he murdered his wife out of anger.
Mociu stabbed his wife with a kitchen knife in the early hours of January 9, last year at her Village in Naisaumua in Tailevu.
Mociu was handed a life imprisonment sentence and a non-parole period of 20 years.
Justice Temo said Mociu who was married to his wife for 17 years started experiencing problems in their marriage when he came out of prison in 2012.
The court heard that Mociu tried to save his marriage but instead was sworn at and publicly embarrassed by the deceased.
Mociu, who was a sugar cane farmer in Nadi, also started hearing stories of his wife having extramarital affairs.
Justice Temo said Mociu released his tension by stabbing his 33-year-old wife to death on a bridge in Naisaumua.
