A jilted husband who stabbed his wife to death after arming himself with knives given to them as a wedding present has been jailed.
Ty Medland will serve at least 25 years behind bars after "brutally" attacking 24-year-old Samantha in public.
He thought she had started a relationship with another man and could not accept her decision that their marriage was over, according to the judge.
Medland, 26, was described in court as a "petulant, self-centred man" incapable of dealing with rejection.
Before the "frenzied and savage" murder in central Brighton, East Sussex, he uploaded to his Facebook page a link to a series of graphic pictures and videos of the couple having sex.
A message he wrote accompanying the link referred to Mrs Medland as "the cheating, lying, unloyal whore who destroyed everything I loved and believe in".
Medland armed himself with four knives - three were wedding gifts. The fourth, and the one Medland most likely used to fatally stab his wife, was a lock knife.
He attacked her as she collected belongings from him near her workplace in Queen Square on February 17.
A two-week trial at Lewes Crown Court heard she had become close to another man and had rebuffed her husband's repeated attempts to patch up their marriage.
Judge Anthony Scott-Gall told Medland: "I am satisfied, as were the jury, that you couldn't accept this rejection, added to which was the suggestion in your mind that your wife had started a relationship with another man."
The judge said he accepted that tragedy had touched Medland's life before he murdered, including the death of his daughter and a miscarriage suffered by Mrs Medland.
But Judge Scott-Gall added: "In my judgement, your motive was clear. You intended to kill your wife because a) she had rejected you and b) because you couldn't bear the prospect of her being with another man.
"This was a brutal attack that was pre-planned."
Medland, of Peacehaven, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but on Friday he was convicted of murder.
Defence counsel Graham Trembath QC said Medland was "indescribably sorry" for his actions and that he was "desperate" for that to be publicly known.
He said: "He knows he will live with what he has done for the rest of his life."
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