Milton Keynes man who drowned wife Carol Georgiou in hot tub jailed

A delivery driver who drowned his wife in a garden hot tub must spend at least 16-and-a-half years in prison before being considered for parole, a judge has ruled. Andrew Georgiou, 45, admitted murdering mother-of-two Carol Georgiou, 42, at their home in Holywell Place, Milton Keynes, on 2 November 2024. Prosecutors said the husband would not accept his 19-year marriage was over and had gone into a rage after a night out. Judge Jonathan Cooper described the murder as "brutal" and handed him a mandatory life sentence on Tuesday, during a hearing at Aylesbury Crown Court. He told Georgiou: "Carol met her death knowing she was with the person she had chosen to live with, the person she had chosen to have children with, and the person to whom she had given her most intimate trust." Carol had climbed into the hot tub in early hours after visiting a nightclub with her husband. The judge said evidence showed she was "intoxicated and naked" - and had struggled before she drowned. "You had time during the course of your struggle to reflect," Judge Cooper told the husband, "...and desist." Georgiou, who waited 40 minutes before calling an ambulance, had initially denied murder. He suggested

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