Edmund Ian Riggs is jailed for 15 years after pleading guilty to manslaughter for killing his wife and twice burying her remains to avoid being caught.
A Brisbane man who killed his wife and twice buried her remains to avoid being caught has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Edmund Ian Riggs was acquitted of murdering his wife Patricia Anne, 34, who went missing in 2001, but last month was instead found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter by a Supreme Court jury. Ms Riggs' remains were uncovered at the family's Margate home in 2016 — 15 years after she disappeared.
During the trial, Riggs claimed for the first time that he pushed his wife during an argument, and that she fell and fatally hit her head so he buried her because he wanted to protect their children. Justice Peter Flanagan today dismissed Riggs' version of events and said it was"starkly inconsistent" with the evidence of blood spatter and where he said the body fell.
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