THE man convicted of the brutal slaying of former Swan Hill woman Samantha Fraser will be sentenced on Monday.
Adrian Basham, 46, was found guilty by a jury last April of the murder of his ex-wife inside the home they once shared at Cowes on Phillip Island in 2018.
He then attempted to stage her death to look like a hanging, claiming his wife killed herself in the moments after he brutally bashed her because she was severely depressed.
The alarm was raised when Ms Fraser failed to pick up her three children from school.
Basham met Ms Fraser in 2005 and they married in 2007, before having three children.
After years of domineering and controlling behaviour by Basham, they separated in 2017 and Ms Fraser took out intervention orders.
On July 23, 2018, he turned up at Ms Fraser’s home and waited 90 minutes while she dropped their children at school, before killing her.
Ms Fraser was captain at Swan Hill College in 1998.
Justice Lesley Taylor will sentence Basham in the Supreme Court in Melbourne.
