MUM KILLED BY HUSBAND
called it the most “horrific and brutal attack” he had encountered in 28 years.
Describing sitting through the grim trial evidence, Alex said: “You try to sleep on a night and all you can see is the horrific pictures from the court. I don’t understand how they could have killed her like that. It was torture.”
Ali and Ahmed, both 27, protested their innocence but were found guilty of murder and ordered to serve a minimum of 22 years.
Ahmed’s housemate Vicky Briggs, 25, was found guilty of assisting an offender and jailed for four years.
Katie said: “I think they should bring the death sentence back for people who kill like that. He’ll still get visits and three meals a day.”
She added: “I want to go and see them. I think he’ll still deny it, I think he’s such a control freak he’s convinced himself he didn’t do it, but she might tell me more.”
For now, Katie is trying her best to stay strong for her tomboyish sister, who trained as a bricklayer and a plasterer and worked as a mechanic before deciding she wanted to be a hairdresser.
Katie has created memory boxes filled with reminders of Sinead for her children. And earlier this month a small memorial was held where a few friends and family played her favourite songs and shared stories. A bigger celebration is planned. Katie added: “I can’t go half an hour without thinking of my sister but I’m determined to stay strong for her.”
There are reminders of Sinead in the everyday, too. Alex said: “If a white butterfly goes past or a feather, Sinead’s around. We talk to her if something happens. We say, ‘We know that were you, Sinead’.”
Miranda Biddle of the Independent Office for Police Conduct said an investigation had found “West Yorkshire Police followed all policies and procedures appropriate to the circumstances and did not cause or contribute to Ms Wooding’s death”.
He played the doting daddy but I could always tell something wasn’t right KATIE MCKENZIE ON HER SISTER’S HUSBAND ALI