Retired police inspector jailed for at least 15 years for murder of wife in Aberdeen
Keith Farquharson was convicted of killing wife of 33 years, Alice, last August.
Last updated 23rd Mar 2020
A retired police inspector has been jailed for at least 15 year for the murder of his wife in Aberdeen last August.
60-year-old Keith Farquharson choked wife of 33 years, 56-year-old Alice in their Aberdeen home last year after she asked if he still loved her.
Farquharson believed his wife no longer trusted him.
He admitted to rekindling an affair with a woman - who his wife had made internet searches for - last year.
She'd previously stood by her husband despite multiple cases of adultery and a demoting at work following sending a sleazy poem to another officer.
A plea to a reduced charge of culpable homicide was previously rejected by the court.
Sentencing at the High Court in Glasgow, Lady Stacey told him:
"You deprived your wife of what would have been many more years of her life.
"You deprived your two daughters, son and your wife's relatives of her society.
“You had been a police officer for many years.
"It is distressing a man who held such a position should behave like this and commit such a serious crime.
"What you did has destroyed your family and taken away the trust children should have in their father."