Is this wife killer jumping on the Post Office scandal bandwagon?

Robin Garbutt is serving life in prison for murdering his wife, but is he innocent? His supporters say so. They insist that evidence from the Horizon IT system and the Post Office which helped convict him of the killing of Diana in 2010 was flawed. Garbutt, they claim, is another victim of the Post Office scandal which saw hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly prosecuted. Diana’s mother is sceptical and has said she believes her son-in-law is guilty. Garbutt, she said, was ‘jumping on the Horizon bandwagon’.

It’s right to treat Garbutt’s appeal with scepticism. Every year, many men are convicted of murdering their partners. The most common culprit when a murder victim is female is a partner or ex-partner. There were 100 domestic homicides last year: seven in ten victims of domestic homicide were women. It seems likely that Diana is another statistic in this tragic catalogue of women whose lives were ended at the hands of their partner.