The ex-boss of the Dreamboys strip group has been jailed for 27 years for trying to homicide his spouse with an axe after he noticed her with actuality TV star Kirk Norcross.
Former stripper David Richards, 42, lay in look forward to hours to ambush 32-year-old Alex Alam in the dead of night when she stepped outdoors her house in Stock, Essex, to let her canines out as kids have been inside.
She suffered a fractured cranium and cuts to her face and scalp within the “bloodbath” that ensued, Judge David Turner KC informed Chelmsford Crown Court.
Ms Alam mentioned: “I’ve been utterly betrayed beyond belief by the person I chose to have children with, turning my life upside down.”
In her sufferer influence assertion, learn in courtroom by prosecutor William Carter, she added: “The scars are a constant reminder of what he did to me.”
Judge Turner praised Ms Alam for “courageously” attending Thursday’s sentencing listening to, and he or she wept in courtroom as particulars have been learn out.
A shaven headed Richards, of no mounted deal with, appeared by video-link from Chelmsford Prison, sobbing periodically via the listening to.
Mr Carter, prosecuting, mentioned Richards took an axe, dry swimsuit and cable ties to the deal with on 3 April 2022.
“Clearly pre-meditation prior to the night and on the night,” he mentioned.
“You will remember he waited a number of hours dressed as he was, with the weapon, waiting for (Ms Alam’s friend) Mr Norcross to depart.”
He famous Ms Alam, who beforehand ran a magnificence salon in Surrey, had mentioned it “really was only the fact she kept on thinking that saved her life”.
Richards was earlier discovered responsible of tried homicide.
He was additionally convicted of breaching a non-molestation order.
The choose informed Richards that the occasions of three April have been a “hideous culmination of the breakdown some 18 months earlier of your family relationships”.
He mentioned that from the autumn of 2019 there had been experiences to police alleging home assaults, harassment and stalking amongst different issues.
He described Richards as “obsessive” and having a “jealous mindset”.
The choose added: “Your dream home, family and lifestyle to which you had aspired had very sadly unravelled and left you depressed, isolated and angry.”
He mentioned Richards had “stalked and monitored the home and Ms Alam before that night”.
Richards had then “tied her up briefly” through the incident however this was “ineffectual”, mentioned the choose and Richards proceeded to pull her by the hair.
Essex Police mentioned that when Richards stepped out to try to discover Ms Alam’s telephone, she was in a position to free herself, lock her doorways and name for assist.
A police chase then ensued and when Richards was caught he informed officers he had accomplished “the most stupid thing I had done in my life”.
Judge Turner sentenced Richards to 27 years in jail and issued a restraining order.
A report in The Independent newspaper says that in 2000 David Richards auditioned as a stripper for the group, which the agency’s web site says was based within the UK in 1987, following within the footsteps of the sooner US-based Chippendales.
Companies House data say he turned a director of Dreamboys London Limited in 2014.
Source: information.sky.com”