An abusive husband who cut his wife’s throat after she left him has been jailed for life.
John Lizanec murdered mother-of-three Michelle and tried to claim she took her own life in Perthshire in February 2021.
A judge ordered that he should serve at least 24 years in prison after slaying his spouse and told him: “It is perfectly possible you will never be released.”
Lizanec attacked his 44-year-old wife with a knife after she broke up with him following years of controlling and derogatory behaviour.
He cut her throat and put her body into an airing cupboard at his home before fleeing to his mother’s house in Dundee where he sparked a siege after arming himself with another knife.
