Nurse Lokendra Singh behind bars for up to eight years after slitting wife Dr Renu Singh’s throat

A MALE nurse who slit his wife’s throat in a bid to kill her has been jailed for up to eight years by a Tasmanian court.

Lokendra Singh’s attempted murder case was heard in the Launceston Magistrates Court.

A MALE nurse who slit his wife’s throat in a bid to kill her has been jailed for up to eight years by a Tasmanian court.

Lokendra Singh, an Indian national, was found guilty last year of attempting to murder his wife in February 2014 while she slept.

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He used a serrated knife to cut the throat of Renu Singh — a doctor at the Launceston General Hospital — three times after the couple’s financial tensions boiled over.

Dr Singh woke up during the attack, prompting her husband to start strangling her before attempting to smother her with a pillow.

Singh then desisted from the attack and tried to conceal his crime, Justice Robert Pearce said today in the Supreme Court in Hobart.

Justice Pearce found Singh — whose sentencing was delayed to allow for a psychiatric assessment — was not mentally impaired when he tried to kill his wife.

He sentenced the 32-year-old to eight years in jail, with a non-parole period of five years backdated to 2014.

Originally published as Nurse Lokendra Singh behind bars for up to eight years after slitting wife Dr Renu Singh’s throat