Leonardo, 56, admits killing his wife but claims he should be cleared of murder because he suffered from a ‘loss of control’, jurors were told.
as sussex would say we all have to take responsibility for our own actions
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| Author: | captain cab [ Tue Nov 01, 2016 7:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
'HE STABBED HER MANY TIMES' Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling “what is the most painful place to stab someone”‘ Jose Leonardo repeatedly knifed 52 year-old Maria Mbombo in the body and arms, jurors heard AN UBER driver murdered his wife after searching on Google for ‘the most painful place to stab someone’, a court heard today. Jose Leonardo repeatedly knifed 52 year-old Maria Mbombo in the body and arms and left her to bleed to death at their family home in north London, jurors heard. Leonardo admits killing his wife Maria Mbombo claiming he lost ‘control’ He then went to buy beer from a local shop while his two sons discovered their mother lying lifeless on the floor of the bedroom, it is claimed. Leonardo, 56, admits killing his wife but claims he should be cleared of murder because he suffered from a ‘loss of control’, jurors were told. But prosecutor John Price QC revealed Leonardo’s phone had been used to search Google a few hours before the murder. One read ‘can I survive stab in the eye’ and the other was ‘most painful place to stab someone’, the Old Bailey heard. Websites related to these search terms were accessed between 2.41pm and 2.46pm. Half an hour later Leonardo accessed a Camden Council parking permit website. Mrs Mbombo, who worked as a cleaner, is last known to have used her phone to speak to a friend at 3.52pm. Both her and Leonardo’s phones stopped being active from around 5pm. Mr Price said: “Maria Mbombo died in her home at her husband’s hand. “He attacked her and stabbed her many times with a knife. “Because of the wounds he inflicted upon her, she bled to death. He was alone with her in their home while that happened. “The prosecution allege that this is a clear case of murder.” The couple met in 1988 and move to the UK from the Netherlands in 1990 with their two sons Carl, now 23, and Jacque, 27. On 18 May this year Jacque returned to the family flat at Chestnut House, Maitland Park Villas, Belsize Park, to find the lights out and the door locked from the inside. He got no answer despite buzzing and kicking the door and shouting ‘Open the Door’. Mr Price said Leonardo must have been inside with his dead or dying wife at the time. Leonardo left the flat an hour later without speaking to his sons and both Jacque and Carl ran inside to find their mother lying on her back on the bedroom floor. She was wearing a white top and black knickers, her face was purple and she was not breathing. Paramedics were called at 11.55pm and arrived to find her cold to the touch with rigor mortis in the jaw. “It was confirmed she was dead and indeed must have been dead for some time,” said Mr Price. Leonardo, who had cuts to his wrist, was arrested near the Super Choice Convenience Store in Queens Crescent after midnight. He told officers: “My wife is killed.” Leonardo, of Maitland Park Villas, Belsize Park, denies murder and perverting the course of justice. The trial continues. source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2095200/u ... b-someone/ |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Tue Nov 01, 2016 9:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
Leonardo, 56, admits killing his wife but claims he should be cleared of murder because he suffered from a ‘loss of control’, jurors were told. as sussex would say we all have to take responsibility for our own actions |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Nov 02, 2016 9:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
 Oh this chap is still licensed 
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| Author: | edders23 [ Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
captain cab wrote: Oh this chap is still licensed well to be fair we haven't had the verdict and sentence yet so I suppose the licensing authority are following the rules I doubt he's in a position to work though 
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| Author: | captain cab [ Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
edders23 wrote: well to be fair we haven't had the verdict and sentence yet so I suppose the licensing authority are following the rules I doubt he's in a position to work though I don't think they are, I think they should have suspended his license |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Sat Nov 12, 2016 12:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
Minicab driver stabbed wife after paternity row, Old Bailey hears A MINICAB driver stabbed his wife to death at their home in Belsize Park after she refused to confirm he was the biological father of their son, a court has heard. Jose Leonardo, 56, stabbed his wife, Maria Mbombo, 52, “many times” with a kitchen knife at their flat in Chestnut House, Maitland Park Villas, during a row on May 18. He admits unlawfully killing his wife, but denies murder on the grounds he “lost control”. Asked why he had killed his wife, he told a jury at the Old Bailey he had been consumed by doubts about the paternity of their 27-year-old son, Jacque. He said: “She couldn’t tell me if Jacque was my son. She wouldn’t let me do a DNA test. She made me understand that if I go to the DNA she would end the relation.” The couple, who met in 1988, have three adult children, the court heard. Mr Leonardo said that suspicions about his wife’s infidelity had driven him to drink. On the day he killed her he had returned home early, unable to work. He said: “I had had enough. I said: ‘Today I need to know if this is my son’.” Mr Leonardo told the jury that when he returned home he discovered that around £8,000 in cash, which the couple had been saving for a trip to their homeland, the Congo, was missing. An argument began when he demanded to know where the money was, Mr Leonardo claimed. He said his wife then picked up a knife and threatened to cut herself. “In the end I just went for the knife, because she had it and she wanted to hurt herself,” he said. “I knew if she did that I would be in big trouble. “She bit me in my hand. At that time I was already upset with everything that happened, so I just lost it. I just lost control. I took the knife and stabbed her.” Mr Leonardo said he could not remember how many times he had stabbed her or which hand he held the knife in. Under cross-examination, Mr Leonardo said: “I will tell you again there are things that happened that day that I don’t remember.” He said: “What happened that day is not me. What happened that day, when I look at it today I can’t even believe what happened. I can’t believe I did this.” The court had heard earlier that on the day he killed his wife he had searched the internet for the “most painful place to stab someone?” and “Can I survive stab in the eye?”. Mr Leonardo told the court that he had been searching for ways to end his own life, but prosecutor John Price, QC, said: “That’s got nothing to do with ending your life. That’s got to do with inflicting maximum pain by stabbing. That’s what you were interested in finding out, wasn’t it?” The court heard that Mr Leonardo, who has two teenage sons from a long-running affair, suspected that his wife was seeing another man. Mr Price told him: “Your daughter Josi said you started to call your wife a Lady of the Night.” Mr Leonardo responded: “Sir, I did not.” Mr Price said: “She told us that you would go through her pictures. You would go through her conversations on WhatsApp. She said there were occasions when her brothers would have to intervene to protect your wife from you.” He said: “You were a controlling and possessive man, weren’t you? And when she didn’t do what you wanted you would use violence on her.” Mr Leonardo said that the couple had been arguing more frequently over his suspicions that she was having an affair, but said of their 28-year relationship: “We had a normal relationship. We were very happy together.” Asked if they argued regularly, he said: “I would say like all couples, sometimes.” The trial continues. source: http://www.camdennewjournal.com/mbombo-trial-2 |
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| Author: | toots [ Sun Nov 13, 2016 6:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
edders23 wrote: captain cab wrote: Oh this chap is still licensed well to be fair we haven't had the verdict and sentence yet so I suppose the licensing authority are following the rules I doubt he's in a position to work though He's admitted it. If that is what he does when he loses control I wouldn't consider him 'fit & proper'. |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Mon Nov 14, 2016 4:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
toots wrote: edders23 wrote: captain cab wrote: Oh this chap is still licensed well to be fair we haven't had the verdict and sentence yet so I suppose the licensing authority are following the rules I doubt he's in a position to work though He's admitted it. If that is what he does when he loses control I wouldn't consider him 'fit & proper'. nor would any of us but in the meantime i'm sure he's nice and comfy in a prison cell no where near his ubermobile |
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| Author: | heathcote [ Mon Nov 14, 2016 7:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
Licensing Authority have the right to suspend or revoke a license immediately if that person is seen to be a danger to the public. A blind man on a galloping horse could see this is one of those times a Council has failed miserably in exercising its powers to revoke. |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Tue Nov 15, 2016 7:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
Uber driver who googled 'most painful place to stab someone' convicted of wife's murder Jose Leonardo, 56, knifed mum-of-three Maria Mbombo, 52, multiple times then left her to die at their home An Uber driver who knifed his wife to death after googling "the most painful place to stab someone" has been convicted of her murder . Jose Leonardo, 56, stabbed Maria Mbombo, 52, multiple times at their home in Belsize Park, west London, in May. The mum-of-three died at the scene, a trial at the Old Bailey heard. Prosecutor John Price QC said there was no dispute that Leonardo killed her , but he has claimed it was manslaughter by "loss of control". The taxi driver was found guilty of one count of murder, but cleared of one charge of perverting the course of justice. The couple met in Holland in 1988 and moved to north-west London in 1993. At the time of her death, Ms Mbombo was working as a cleaner while the defendant was a driver for the internet-based company Uber. Shortly before midnight on May 18, the couple's 23-year-old son Carl dialled 999 in tears. Paramedics arrived to find him trying to resuscitate his mother on the floor of a bedroom. The victim, who was wearing a white top and black knickers, was covered in blood and had been dead for "some while", Mr Price said. She had been alone with the defendant until her children returned home shortly before the 999 call, the court heard. Maria Mbombo was knifed to death Earlier that afternoon, the defendant's mobile phone was used to search Google for "can I survive stab in the eye" and "most painful place to stab someone". The defendant was in his flat with his dead or dying wife for an hour or so as his other son Jacques, 27, banged on the door and screamed to get in. After slipping out, Leonardo tried to buy a bottle of beer in a nearby convenience store but was refused. The shopkeeper noticed blood on his jacket and asked "what's that?" and Leonardo allegedly replied: "Just call the police." Officers arrived to find Leonardo wearing a white vest drenched in blood and murmuring "my wife is dead". Mr Price told jurors: "For all his statements of grief to the police officers at the hospital, the defendant, who will have been with her in their home whilst she slowly died, did nothing to summon help." Leonardo will be sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey at 10am on Tuesday, with his minimum term to be determined. source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ub ... st-9260819 |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Wed Nov 16, 2016 7:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
Leonardo will be sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey at 10am on Tuesday, with his minimum term to be determined. no reason not to revoke his badge now ! |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Wed Nov 16, 2016 10:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
edders23 wrote: no reason not to revoke his badge now ! I would imagine it has already lapsed. |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Thu Nov 17, 2016 9:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Uber driver ‘murdered his wife after Googling |
Sussex wrote: edders23 wrote: no reason not to revoke his badge now ! I would imagine it has already lapsed. According to CC's post it was valid till Jan 2019 |
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