The child continued in their second set of police interviews: “There was a plan and we went through with it. I was told to lie and I did.”
But shortly after the killing, the child originally told police how, after another argument between Rhodes and his wife, they had tried to intervene.
As part of the cover-up of their father’s attack, the child said their mother picked up a knife and swung it at their arm, delivering the cut to their arm which was, in fact, administered by Rhodes.
The child described Dawn’s “rage” and “anger” in a police interview in May 2017, before being told to run upstairs and “lock yourself in the bathroom”.
In his own police interview, an emotional Rhodes told officers how he “grabbed the blade” of the knife and “held it as tight as I could”.
Weaving his story together, he told officers: “I was scared, and it takes a lot to scare me.
“It’s like one minute she [Dawn] is fine and the next minute she’s like the Hulk,” he added, referring to the comic book superhero.
Rhodes was previously acquitted of murder during a trial at the Old Bailey in May 2017.
