A WIFE who battered her husband to death with a vase was today jailed for a minimum of 17 years.Mother Maria Hopes, 46, and her son Leon Port, 24, attacked her husband Mark Hopes in a drunken row.Grandfather Mr Hopes, 45, was smashed over the head with a heavy vase - and fragments of the pottery were found in his skull.READ MORE: A man who made 250 false 999 calls is facing jailThe callous pair then left Mr Hopes dying for hours before an ambulance was called to the house in Trealaw,...
