Woman Murdered for Her Facebook Status, Husband Gets Life in Prison

by Jordan Yerman | October 17, 2008 at 08:07 am

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Four days after separating, a woman changed her Facebook status to "single". Upon seeing her status change while checking Facebook, her estranged husband drove to Croydon, just south of London, and stabbed her to death.

He has been sentenced to life in prison.

Wayne Forrester, 34, took alcohol and cocaine and drove 15 miles to New Addington, Croydon, to attack his wife Emma, also 34, as she lay in bed.

She was found in a pool of blood after neighbours were woken at 6.30am by her screams. Near her body was a large kitchen knife and in another room a blood-soaked meat cleaver.

The couple had separated four days before the murder in February and Forrester later told police he had been provoked by his wife changing her marital status to "single" on her Facebook entry, the court heard.

Victim Emma Forrester, a 34 year-old payroll administrator, had thrown her husband out of their home after the breakdown of their volatile 15 year relationship.

A lethal combination of jealousy, a tempestuous membership, and drug use; the tech aspect may be the novel element of this story, but it is by no means the most important.

Four days before the murder Forrester moved out of the family home to stay with his sister in Paddington. He repeatedly called home and threatened to kill her.

Ms Lewis said: "He was angry about an entry on Facebook he said made him look like a fool as she had advertised her marital status as single. He accused her of having an affair."