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Michael Cowey. PIC: Norfolk Police. - Credit: Archant A man who murdered his wife had threatened to stab her if she left him years before, her family have said. Cowey, who has 10 convictions for 27 previous offences, including robbery, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon, has a history of violence. And although largely unknown to Gemma’s family until after she was murdered in the summer, there were signs about what Cowey was capable of even before they got married. Police at the the scene of where Gemma Cowey was found stabbed to death in Thorpe St A...

A 'persistent domestic abuser' who knifed his wife to death at a derelict former mental health hospital has been jailed for 23 years for her murder. Michael Cowey, 49, told 38-year-old mother-of-three Gemma Cowey he wanted to meet to talk with her but confronted her about relationship issues which led to an argument. He took two knives he had hidden in his socks and stabbed her 20 times in the back and neck in the grounds of the former St Andrew's Hospital at Thorpe St Andrew near Norwich. Gemma's mother said in a victim impact statement her family have 'nightmares' about the 'pain and fear'...

Gemma Cowey. - Credit: Archant The mother of a woman stabbed to death by her husband said no sentence will be enough for the "pain and fear he put her through in the final minutes of her life", as he was jailed for 23 years. Police were called to Northside House, a derelict former mental health hospital at Thorpe St Andrew, at around 12.45pm on Friday, June 19 following reports that a woman, later identified as mother-of-three Gemma Cowey, had been found with serious injuries. Emergency services attended the site, off Yarmouth Road, but despite treatment the 38-year-old died at the scene.