A desperately ill pensioner was 'murdered' by his wife of 50 years after he admitted to an affair on what he believed was his deathbed, a court heard.
Tony Wakeford, 75, thought he was dying when he confessed to his wife Patricia that he had a fling with her best friend of 43 years, Penny.
However, Mr Wakeford recovered from his illness and returned home, and hoped that his wife could forgive him as he struggled with Parkinson's disease.
But over the next five years her anger simmered before she finally snapped and allegedly stabbed him to death with a kitchen knife, the jury at Guildford Crown Court, Surrey, was told.
She dialled 999 in the early hours of September 4 last year, telling emergency services her husband had attacked her when she scolded him again over the fling as she peeled vegetables at their home in Norwood Road, Effingham, Surrey,
Mrs Wakeford, 67, wept in the dock as the jury was told that she had murdered the love of her life, who she had been with since the age of 17.
Mr Wakeford died from a single stab wound to the heart but was also found to have knife wounds on his hands, arm and leg.
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Confession, not always good for you...
Confession, not always good for you...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”