A 46-year old London man has been sentenced to just three years in prison after killing his wife by hitting her in the head with a television remote control. The trial was held in the Old Bailey, a famous court in London.

The electrical engineer was arguing with his 48-year-old American wife, both husband and wife had consumed alcohol and cocaine. The man threw the less than half pound TV remote at her unaware she suffered from an extremely rare health condition which meant that an artery in her neck was weak she suffered a large brain haemorrhage and died.

The court agreed with a defense argument he’d only thrown the remote in her direction and it was a fluke it hit and killed her. He bizarrely compared it to “winning the lottery.”

In sentencing the man 3-years the Judge said,"You killed your wife, who was rightly been described by your counsel as a fine woman," he said. "You have this streak of anger and violence within your character that does surface from time to time."