HORRIBLE: Husband Stabs Wife To Death After she Ended their Marriage of 10 Years
The woman, Heather Arthur decided to leave her husband of 30 years, Mark Arthur, after falling in love with the saxophonist in a jazz band she sung with.
Mrs Arthur was stabbed in the heart by her husband at the couple's home when she told her husband their marriage was over
Mr Arthur after killing his wife went to his doctor's surgery nearby wearing boxer shorts and a top, bursting in on his GP and saying he had hurt his wife.
The 50-year-old man who ran his own IT business has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murder on the grounds that he lost control.
However prosecutors say he had known for some time the marriage was in trouble and that Mrs Arthur
wanted to separate.
A prosecutor Mark Giuliani told the court: 'She was exercising control over her life and told him it was definitely over and he didn't like it and he stabbed her.
'The Crown's case is this was not loss of control. Relationships break down every day but people don't end up lying in a pool of blood.
'That is not a reasonable response to being told something you already had good knowledge of and well knew.'
The couple who met at the university in London had been together for 30 years and married for around 10 years.
Mr Giuliani said: 'They started to see each other away from the band and she confided in him about how badly her husband treated her.
'It was clear the marriage was breaking down, while Heather Arthur and Paul Gowland's relationship grew stronger.
'In the last weeks before her death, they became lovers. 'Mrs Arthur had decided her relationship with the defendant had run its course and that they should separate.'
Mrs Arthur on the day she died had agreed to have one last family day out with her husband, Arthur but was found lying dead in a pool of blood in the study at the back of the house, next to her husband's desk by Police officers.
Police untied a tightly knotted scarf round her neck, revealing a knife sticking out of her chest.
The trial, expected to last 10 days, continues.
'In the last weeks before her death, they became lovers. 'Mrs Arthur had decided her relationship with the defendant had run its course and that they should separate.'
Mrs Arthur on the day she died had agreed to have one last family day out with her husband, Arthur but was found lying dead in a pool of blood in the study at the back of the house, next to her husband's desk by Police officers.
Police untied a tightly knotted scarf round her neck, revealing a knife sticking out of her chest.
The trial, expected to last 10 days, continues.
