By Mia De Graaf A former soldier who battered his wife to death with a dumbbell after hiring a detective to expose her affair has been jailed for at least 17 years today. Nirmal Gill, 49, who killed wife Rosemary Gill, 48, in the bedroom of their Bristol home in the early hours of July 20 last year, was handed a life sentence at Bristol Crown Court. The killer beat her to death because he could not accept she wanted to 'move on and have a life without him', the jury was told. Guilty: Nirmal Gill, 49 (left), has been convicted of murdering Rosemary Gill (right) after uncovering her affair
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Nirmal Gill, 49, discovered wife Rosemary, 48, was seeing ex-husband
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Paid team to put tracking device in her Audi, followed her to his house
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Three days after seeing them together he beat her to death in Bristol home
@placeholder was told 'possessive' Gill had become suspicious of his wife’s behaviour and contracted a team to watch her movements.