Ruth Williams, Anthony Williams, Priti Patel THE organisation responsible for overseeing public services in Torfaen has responded to the intervention of home secretary Priti Patel into the sentencing of a Cwmbran man who killed his wife. Ruth Williams, 67, was strangled by her husband of 46 years in the early days of the first national coronavirus lockdown. Anthony Williams, 70, was given a five-year prison sentence after admitting manslaughter by diminished responsibility. He was found not guilty of the charge of murder. Priti Patel sent a letter to Cllr Anthony Hunt, leader of Torfaen Council and the public services board of Torfaen – which the council is a member of – asking for a Domestic Homicide Review - or DHR - to be carried out in relation to the death of Mrs Williams.