A man who carried out a "ferocious" rampage in south London has been sentenced to a minimum of 29 years in jail.
Jamaican national Desmond Brooks murdered his wife and left two women - his ex-girlfriend and sister-in-law - for dead in the attack in July 2013.
The Old Bailey heard how the 42-year-old accused his victims of "nagging" and "disrespecting" him.
He subsequently armed himself with knives and went on a 35-minute rampage at two flats in Brixton.
After pleading guilty to the murder of his wife, Brooks was jailed for life and ordered to serve at least 29 years.
He was also sentenced to 19 years for the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend and another 12 years for causing grievous bodily harm to his sister-in-law, all to run concurrently.
The court was told how Brooks had attacked ex-girlfriend Joan Wade, 46, in front of a young child telling her: "You think I'm playing? I'm going to kill you."
Neighbours and passers-by saw him chopping and slashing at Ms Wade after she fled onto her balcony.
He then went to his estranged wife's home nearby and told Keisha McKenzie, 28, "Suck your mum, Keisha, you're for dead."
Ms McKenzie's 17-year-old sister, Saffron Yeboah-Simpson, who tried to stop the attack on her sister, was herself attacked after she barricaded herself in the bathroom to protect a seven-year-old blood-spattered and screaming boy.
Brooks later phoned his girlfriend and confessed and, when arrested, told police: "I want to hand myself in. I killed my wife. I cannot take it any more."
Sentencing him, Judge Stephen Kramer said: "Over the period of about an hour on the evening of 29 July 2013, you engaged in a stabbing spree properly said to be of extreme violence and ferocity.
"The catalogue of injuries inflicted is truly appalling."
The court was told Brooks, who had 10 convictions for cannabis offences since his arrival in the UK in 2002, could have been suffering from undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, only identified after his arrest.
Elizabeth Marsh QC said of Brooks: "He wishes to apologise and say sorry. He is at a loss to understand why he would have hurt the women closest to him.
"He cannot in any way understand what would have provoked him to that."
Brooks will be deported when he is eventually released from prison.
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