
‘Bizarre, senseless, tragic’: Heinz Ratke learns fate for killing wife in attempted murder-suicide
An elderly NSW man who stabbed his wife to death in an attempted murder-suicide weeks before Christmas could die in prison, the judge who sentenced him over the crime said. Heinz Ratke, 76, pleaded guilty earlier this year to murdering Maria, his 71-year-old wife of more than 50 years, in their Katoomba home. Her body…