Jealous husband who throttled wife to death is jailed

Jailed: Agim Isaku
Met Police
Mark Chandler2 March 2016
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A jealous husband who throttled his wife to death and then called the police has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years today.

Agim Isaku killed Elife Bega, the mother of his two children, after becoming convinced her platonic friendship with another man was actually an affair.

After setting out to control her by monitoring phonecalls, blocking her Facebook access and insisting she quit her job, Isaku strangled the 33-year-old at their home in Convent Way, Southall.

He dialled 999 on August 13 last year at 1.12am and told the operator: “I just, yeah, I think my wife is dead, so."

Asked how it happened the 40-year-old replied: “Struggling together, struggling together, with each other."

Police arrived at the flat and found Eli lying unconscious on the bedroom floor. She was pronounced dead in hospital later that day.

A post-mortem examination gave her cause of death as compression of the neck. She also had injuries to her back and arm.

Isaku, who claimed her had acted in self-defence, was cleared of her murder by an Old Bailey jury last week but convicted of manslaughter.

Today, he was given a sentence of 10 years and six months for killing her.

Detective Inspector Louise Knipe, of the Met’s Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: "This was a terrible crime that has taken the life of a young woman and robbed two young children of their mother.

“Eli told a friend she was she was planning on making her husband a cake for his birthday and she seems to have been working hard to make the marriage work.

"Despite Eli's efforts to make her husband happy, Isaku's unfounded jealously drove him to carry out a savage assault.”

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