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A woman who murdered her husband so she could keep her home has been jailed for life.
Maria Boyne, 30, was told she would have to serve a minimum of 24 years for killing husband Graham, 41.
Mr Boyne was stabbed 31 times during a bitter marriage break-up in which she threatened him when faced with losing the £170,000 terrace house.
Boyne was found guilty at the Old Bailey on Friday to murdering her husband in his bed in April last year.
In the weeks leading up to the murder, she told a number of people she wanted the television repairman dead so she could live with her new partner in the house in Parkside Avenue, Barnehurst, Kent.
Boyne, who was pregnant by "naive" lover Gary McGinley, 24, tried to frame him for the murder but he was cleared by the jury.
During the trial, Boyne admitted taking a bloody gold chain from her husband's neck after he died and pawning it for £220 to raise money to spend the night in a hotel with her lover.
Victor Temple QC, prosecuting, said Mr Boyne was found naked except for a pair of white socks.
"It was a cold-blooded murder. It was a brutal and sustained attack," he said.
"The marriage was all but over. Divorce was imminent. The only asset was the family home. She was heard from time to time to make threats against her husband with regard to her obtaining the house should he die."
