{"id":373390,"date":"2026-01-16T14:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373390\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:09:07","slug":"man-jailed-for-at-least-29-years-and-six-months-for-murdering-wife-after-childs-new-evidence-led-to-retrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373390\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for at least 29 years and six months for murdering wife after child&#8217;s new evidence led to retrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Highly unusual&#8217; double jeopardy casepublished at 13:51 GMT<\/p>\n<p>13:51 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to BBC South East, legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg<br \/>\ncalled the case, including the aspects of double jeopardy, \u201chighly unusual\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rozenberg said: \u201cIt\u2019s very unusual for the witness to come<br \/>\nforward and say what they told the police was wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIt\u2019s very unusual indeed for a witness who was present at<br \/>\nthe crime to come forward later and say what they saw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a reminder, Robert Rhodes was convicted due to double<br \/>\njeopardy rules which allow serious cases to be retried again when new and compelling<br \/>\nevidence which was not available during the first trial is brought to light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Often this comes about due to new DNA evidence, but in this<br \/>\ncase it was the new account of Rhodes\u2019 child, which was revealed to their<br \/>\ntherapist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Highly unusual&#8217; double jeopardy casepublished at 13:51 GMT 13:51 GMT Speaking to BBC South East, legal commentator Joshua&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-373390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}