DAILY STAR
Chilling audio captures the moment a husband confessed to murdering his wife at their marital home. Mihiai Hurmuz-Irimia, 29, used two blades to stab Katie Hurmaz-Irimia, 40, just days after they returned from a trip to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary.
A court heard the victim suffered wounds “all over” her body in the sickening attack at the address in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Hurmuz-Irimia now faces a life sentence after a jury at Oxford Crown Court found him guilty of murder yesterday following just three and a half hours of deliberations.
During the week-long trial, jurors heard the defendant stabbed his wife 171 times as was “resentful” of attempts by his wife to make him stop drinking.
Remanding the thug into custody to be sentenced on Thursday, Judge Ian Pringle KC said: “The sentence will be one of life imprisonment but I need to set a term, a minimum term, which you need to serve before being eligible to apply for parole.”
After the murder on August 30, 2022, Hurmuz-Irimia phoned 999 call and told operators – “Hello, I think I’ve killed my wife.” The harrowing 999 call, released by Thames Valley Police today after it was played to the jury, captures Hurmuz-Irimia say: “I stabbed her – all over the place.”
He then tells the operator: “I need to be locked up. My head told me to do something. I done it.” He later adds: “I told you my brain is wrong. There’s a lot of blood in the hallway. Can’t even look at it. I just like blacked out. Like my head was like ‘boom’.”
When asked to reassure the handler he won’t be a danger to cops or himself when they arrive, he responds: “I’m not a danger to anyone… Well, I am obviously to my wife but…”
