A father who murdered his wife will spend an extra two years behind bars after a judge heard his children had witnessed the attack.

Mohammed Rashid said his two children were asleep upstairs when he killed his wife Sughra Rani with a kitchen knife and a chapatti pan after discovering she was having an affair.

He claimed he then hid her body behind a sofa in their home in Mold Crescent, Banbury, to spare his children, then aged six and four, from seeing what he had done.

But his daughter later told relatives that her brother had blood on his clothes after hugging their mother the evening she was killed on September 16 last year.

The case was today called back to Oxford Crown Court — where Rashid was given a life sentence last month — to decide whether the 36-year-old’s minimum sentence could be extended.

Rashid admitted the murder.

Judge Julian Hall extended Rashid’s minimum sentence from 13 years and 10 months to 15 years and 10 months.

He said: “I find beyond a doubt that the children were downstairs at some stage during the murderous attack. I sentenced on the basis that the children were upstairs.”