Jail for nurse who stabbed husband over TV Burp argument

Leonora Sinclair, 50, wanted to see Harry Hill’s TV Burp while 73-year-old Lloyd insisted on football.

As the row escalated, Mr Sinclair, who had been married for only 10 months, lay bleeding to death in the hallway of their semi-detached home.

Sinclair, of Windward Close, Enfield, north London, was found guilty of manslaughter at the Old Bailey in October, but cleared of murder. Mr Sinclair, a driver for a church care centre, was frightened of his wife, who had attacked him on previous occasions.

On the afternoon of Saturday January 15, she texted a friend: “I am watching Steel Magnolias and getting p***ed on wine while Lloyd makes the dinner. LOL.”

Later they argued about what to watch and Mr Sinclair was fatally stabbed with a large kitchen knife in the back of his left thigh.

Pc Gillian Bills said drunken Sinclair told her on the way to hospital: “We had an argument about what to watch on TV.

“He wanted to watch football and I wanted to watch Harry Hill.” Sinclair, who had been married twice before, denied stabbing her husband. She agreed she had claimed he was injured by falling on a broken wine glass, but said it was in panic. Judge Stephen Kramer told her: “I am satisfied that you are a domineering person, particularly when you have taken drink.”

She had robbed Mr Sinclair’s family and friends of “much loved and respected man”.

Bobbie Cheema, prosecuting, said Sinclair had set up a “sham, bogus scene” while her husband was dying.

Sinclair said they were introduced in May 2008 and found an attraction despite being “like chalk and cheese”.

The court heard there were rows about money after they wed as her wages were paid into an account controlled by her husband.

However the prosecution said it was Sinclair who had been violent and friends and family had noticed injuries.

Miss Cheema said: “She found an element of enjoyment in humiliating him.

“Lloyd would come to work bearing signs of physical injury including bruising to his face.

“When asked about them he would frankly admit they had been caused by Leonora.”

In September last year, Mr Sinclair called police because he said she had “gone crazy”. Officers found her in a locked bedroom with a knife, said Miss Cheema.

Mr Sinclair, who divorced his first wife some years earlier and had four grown-up children, had told his son Vincent that “she keeps hitting me”.

Monica Thompson, pastor of the Ministry of Praise in Tottenham, said she had been a friend of “Brother Lloydy” for many years.

The final straw came when she saw Sinclair beating Lloyd up outside her home.

“I got the impression he was afraid of her. His face was swollen up after that. She was hitting him in his face and everywhere. He was quite shocked.”