A husband once cleared of murdering his wife now faces a life sentence – after their child revealed he recruited them to help plan the killing and then cover it up.

Robert Rhodes, 52, slashed his wife Dawn’s throat at their home in Redhill, Surrey, on June 2, 2016, but walked free from the Old Bailey 11 months later after claiming he acted in self-defence.

The key witness was their young child who, then still only in primary school, described how Dawn had attacked them both with the knife, slashing their arm and stabbing Rhodes in the back.

Prosecutor John Price KC told a new jury at Inner London Crown Court last month that ‘Robert Rhodes had got away with murder’ – that was until his child, now a teenager ‘plagued and grievously burdened by guilt, decided it was time for the truth to e

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