A WOMAN who killed her husband with an axe walked free from court today.Wadanahalugeder Chandrasekera, 59, of Port Close, Bearsted, Kent, instead received a three-year community order at Woolwich Crown Court.
The court heard she killed her husband Sarath Chandrasekera, 57, with 11 blows of an axe to his head on October 23 last year after discovering he had fathered a child with her niece.
He had moved out of the family home six years earlier and returned that night to visit his son.
The couple’s relationship deteriorated when Mr Chandrasekera moved into a separate bedroom in the early 1990s.
The timing coincided with the arrival of her niece in the UK 15 years ago.
Mother-of-two, Chandrasekera, a health visitor, admitted manslaughter.
She told police she had “snapped” and admitted "I was a crazy woman".
She said after her arrest: "I didn’t mean to but he betrayed me. I found out he’s been having an affair with my niece and they had a baby."
Doctors agreed that, at the time of the killing, she had an abnormality of mind that substantially impaired her responsibility for the action.
