Damian Rzeszowski, 31, has been jailed for a total of 30 years after stabbing six people to death
A builder who knifed six people to death, including his wife and two young children on the island of Jersey, has been jailed for 30 years.
Damian Rzeszowski, 31, snapped after his wife Izabela, 30, admitted having a two-month affair with another man.
He armed himself with kitchen knives and killed her, along with his daughter Kinga, five, and two-year-old son Kacper, at their home in St Helier on August 14 last year.
He also killed his father-in-law Marek Gartska, 56, and turned on his wife's friend, Marta De La Haye, 34, and her five-year-old daughter Julia, who were at the house for a barbecue.
Rzeszowski was convicted of six counts of manslaughter but cleared of murder following a trial at the Royal Court in St Helier, Jersey, last August.
Judge Michael Birt today sentenced him to 30 years for each victim, which are to run concurrently.
According to States of Jersey Police, Judge Birt, who is the Bailiff of Jersey, told the court: 'The horror and brutality of these killings is hard to believe.
'Within a quarter of an hour all six people had died, their lives cruelly cut short at the hand of this defendant.
'The court is in no doubt from the nature of the attacks that you intended to kill all six victims.
'This was not a case of murder - the court found you guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility - but you still pose a risk of harm to anyone you are in a relationship with.'
The court was told that Rzeszowski was still not fully aware of what he did on the day of the killings.
It also heard that he had sent letters to the loved ones of some of his victims but had not been able to bring himself to write to his wife’s mother.
The frenzied attacks were launched after Mrs Rzeszowska told her husband she had cheated on him.
Rzeszowski had a history of violence and had as many as 10 fights since moving to Jersey from Poland in 2005.
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