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Likewise, in Manchester in 2004, Jules Lowe battered his 82-year-old father to death and was later acquitted. But in 1998, Dean Sokell, a Devon chef, was jailed for life after attacking his wife with the claw hammer he'd used to fix the bed the day before. He woke up mid-attack—post-31-hits-of-the-hammer—and stabbed her in the chest seven times with a kitchen knife to stop her screaming. Psychiatric reports showed he was not mentally ill and probably not sleepwalking either. He was probably just evil.Am I sitting on a grisly Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card here?
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