Jessica Patel's family 'devastated'published at 16:45 Greenwich Mean Time 4 December 2018
The wife of a woman murdered by her husband in their Middlesbrough home said they had been 'devastated by her death.
Mitesh Patel, 37, denied killing Jessica 34, but was found guilty by a jury at Teesside Crown Court.
In a statement her family said: "She had simple dreams, all she ever wanted was to fall in love, have a family of her own and live happily ever after.
"The man we welcomed into our family, who promised to look after and protect her, betrayed her in every sense of the word, cheating her of her dreams, robbing her of her life and robbing us of her."