A 60-year-old who killed his wife was a "monster", according to his eldest son. Michael McDaid didn't even look at his 23-year-old son Owen when his own flesh and blood stared at him in the dock and told him: "I am truly ashamed to have ever called you my dad". Owen and his younger brother Isaac told a packed courtroom at Nottingham Crown Court of the devastating impact their mother's death had had on them.
Rachel McDaid was strangled to death by her husband at their former family home in the Nottinghamshire town of Eastwood back in April. Michael McDaid could now be spending the rest of his life behind bars, reports NottinghamLive . Owen said: “I am truly ashamed to have ever called you my dad.
You had everything in life - a beautiful home, a beautiful wife, three children - and that has gone because you are selfish. “You have ruined every single childhood memory I have of you. I thought you were a loving father and husband but nothing could be further from the truth.
I am looking at you, but you won't look at me and answer the one question I want to know the answer to. Why? “How can you kill an innocent woman as beautiful as her, your wife? I hope you can see the pain you have caused to everyone. The man sitting here today is not my dad, he's a monster.
" Rachel was strangled to death by McDaid at their former family home in Nottingham Road, on the morning of April 19. James Varley, prosecuting, said the couple married back in 1998 and have three sons aged 23, 21 and 1.