A HUSBAND who murdered his wife after discovering she was having a lesbian affair should be jailed for longer than the minimum term imposed on him, appeal judges have heard.
Tony Vita, 48, from Glasgow, was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to serve 12 years before he is eligible to seek parole after fatally wounding his wife Marion, 48, in a knife attack.
But the Crown are now seeking to have the minimum term imposed on Vita, known as a punishment part, increased.
Advocate depute Douglas Fairley QC told judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh: "In the particular circumstances of this case the imposition of a punishment part of 12 years imprisonment was not simply lenient, but was unduly lenient."
The prosecutor said he was seeking to have the appeal judges quash the 12-year minimum term and to substitute a longer period to "reflect the gravity and circumstances" of the offence.
The court heard the day before the murder on September 20 last year Vita had discovered his wife, who was not living in the matrimonial home, was in a sexual relationship with another woman, Polish financial adviser Elvira Rumniak.
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