Hockey coach and wife were living ‘separate lives’ before she was 'stabbed to death’

Mohamed Samak would complain that he and his wife Joanne did not have a sexual relationship

Hockey coach and wife were living ‘separate lives’ before she was ‘stabbed to death’

An interior designer was living an almost separate life to her hockey coach husband before she was stabbed to death, a court heard.

Egyptian Mohamed Samak stands accused of murdering his 49-year-old wife Joanne who he claims stabbed herself “repeatedly” in front of him after he woke at around 3am.

He told a jury at Worcester Crown Court, he found Joanne screaming and “trying to stab herself” before she slumped on a bed with a knife in her stomach at their home in Chestnut Spinney, Droitwich Spa.

Hockey coach and wife were living ‘separate lives’ before she was ‘stabbed to death’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/mohamed-samak-joanne-worcester-crown-court-b2688692.html