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…’
The trial heard the married couple had just returned from a trip to Bournemouth, Dorset, to celebrate their anniversary.
The victim had accused the defendant of ‘ruining’ their holiday with his drunken behaviour and told him their marriage would be ‘well and truly over’ when they got home.
A few days after they returned, he killed her in a stabbing frenzy in the early hours of August 30 last year, prosecutors claimed.
The defendant, who denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility, showed no emotion when the jury returned its verdict.
Hurmuz-Irimia said he had been suffering from an emotionally unstable personality disorder.
There were so many wounds that, in places, pathologist Dr Charlotte Randall was only able to estimate the wounds in a particular area of the body.
Pictures of the flat presented to the jury showed the terrible aftermath of the attack. While the victim’s body had been obscured in the photographs, large pools of blood on the floor around her were still clearly visible.
There was extensive bloodstaining in the bedroom, where the attack began, and in the hallway where her body was found face-down on the ground.
Other bloodstaining evidence suggested that the killer had walked into the living room following the attack, sat down on the sofa and used the TV remote. He also took a shower, leaving his heavily bloodstained boxer shorts on the bathroom floor.
There was extensive bloodstaining in the bedroom, where the attack began, and in the hallway where her body was found face-down on the ground.
Other bloodstaining evidence suggested that the killer had walked into the living room following the attack, sat down on the sofa and used the TV remote. He also took a shower, leaving his heavily bloodstained boxer shorts on the bathroom floor.
