A solicitor from Rotherham who was jailed for seven years after killing his wife has been struck off the solicitors' roll. Leslie Humes, 40, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of provocation at Sheffield Crown Court last July.
Humes stabbed his wife Madeline 12 times with a kitchen knife at the family home in Wickersley in front of their four children.
The attack on 30 December 2001 came after Mrs Humes had admitted to an affair with her karate instructor.
At a tribunal on Tuesday Victoria Hunt representing the Law Society said a conviction of a serious criminal offence amounts to conduct unbefitting a solicitor.
Humes, who is serving his sentence at Doncaster prison, was struck off and ordered to pay �688 costs.
In December the Court of Appeal refused to interfere in the case despite the Attorney General describing Humes' sentence as "unduly lenient".
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