Overview
- Northampton Crown Court sentenced Knight, 35, to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 17 years and one month.
- He changed his plea to guilty of murder as his trial approached this month after initially admitting only manslaughter.
- Izzy Knight was killed by strangulation at the couple’s Burton Latimer home on 13 June 2025 while their two daughters slept.
- Police uncovered the crime after Knight crashed his car at a McDonald’s car park in an apparent suicide attempt and a note admitting the killing cited cocaine addiction and financial pressures.
- Evidence to the court detailed a 7g cocaine purchase two days before the murder, findings that he likely used the drug before and after the killing, and family reports of controlling and abusive behavior, with the children now cared for by their maternal grandmother.