A trans woman killed her husband with a samurai sword by 'stabbing and slicing him' more than 50 times, a jury has found.
Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, had been deemed 'unfit to plead' to the murder of her husband Andrew Rowland-Stuart, 69, in their 15th-floor flat in Lavender Street in Brighton, on May 27 last year.
She told police attending the scene that 'she had no choice' but to kill him after he attacked her with the sword, which she bought in the 1980s.
When police and paramedics arrived at the scene, they tried to conduct life-saving treatment, but Mr Rowland-Stuart's injuries were 'simply not survivable'.
On Thursday afternoon, jurors at Lewes Crown Court found that Rowland-Stuart had killed her husband in a trial of the act which decides if someone physically committed a crime, rather than their intent.
