 A man has admitted to murdering his schoolteacher wife at their family home while their 11-year-old son slept upstairs. Conrad Iyayi 'brutally and needlessly' stabbed Kathryn, known as Katy Harris, seven times in the chest at their home in Littleover, Derby on February 6 last year. The 46-year-old was on trial for murder at Derby Crown Court, having already admitted manslaughter. But on the second day of the hearing today, Iyayi pleaded guilty to murder. Iyayi had taken methadone sourced from the dark web and drank brandy prior to the shocking attack, the court heard. The next morning he found Ms Harris, 52, face down in a pool of blood, wearing just a T-shirt. Three kitchen knives stained with blood were laid nearby, next to a bottle of open brandy. The couple's son did not hear the attack 'so knew nothing about his mum's death' when police woke him up that morning, Gordon Aspen KC, prosecuting, said. Informing the court of Mr Iyayi's decision, his barrister, Amjad Malik KC, said: 'Yesterday afternoon, after court ended, I went to see Mr Iyayi and he indicated what he wished to do, and this morning I have gone through the process with him. 'Mr Iyayi wishes to plead guilty to murder and in these circumstances, the jury has been kept waiting, but for good reason.' Thanking the jury for their service, Judge Shaun Smith KC said: 'It is difficult for a defendant to come to the decision that they have done something as large as committing an offence of murder, which you would have been told involves an intention to kill. 'Sometimes it takes a while to come to terms with what you have done.' Mr Malik asked the court for the case to be adjourned for a 'significant' period of time so reports could be prepared but acknowledged 'there is only one sentence in this case'. Ms Harris, a teacher at St Clare's School in Mickleover, was described as 'loving, compassionate, forgiving, loya){kind=link}
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A man has admitted to murdering his schoolteacher wife at their family home while their 11-year-old son slept upstairs.
Conrad Iyayi ‘brutally and needlessly’ stabbed Kathryn, known as Katy Harris, seven times in the chest while in the kitchen of their property in Littleover, Derby last year.
The 46-year-old was on trial for murder at Derby Crown Court, having already admitted manslaughter.
But on the second day of the hearing today, Iyayi pleaded guilty to murder.