Priti Patel has ordered a domestic homicide review into the death of a woman killed by her husband days into the first lockdown. Domestic violence campaigners had raised concerns about the five-year jail sentence given to Anthony Williams, who strangled his wife Ruth at their home. He was cleared of murder last month. A psychiatrist told the trial his anxiety and depressive illness had been ‘heightened’ by lockdown. Strangled: Ruth Williams, 67, was found dead on her doorstep. Domestic violence campaigners had raised concerns about the five-year jail sentence given to her husband Anthony Williams Torfaen County Borough Council said it would not carry out a DHR of the case because of the couple’s ‘very limited involvement with services and an absence of any domestic abuse history’.