A hockey coach who brutally murdered his wife and attempted to cover it up as a suicide so he could claim her life insurance and pursue another woman has been jailed.

Mohamed Samak, 43, stabbed 49-year-old Joanne in the chest and stomach six times at their home in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, last July.

Neighbours were awoken in the early hours by screaming which lasted around 10 seconds, the court heard.

Samak called 999 around an hour later and told the call handler he found Joanne, who slept in a separate bedroom, slumped on the bed with a knife in her belly.

He said he had decided to check on her after waking up during the night to go to the bathroom.

At trial he claimed he was woken up by a scream and went onto the landing to see her stabbing herself. The killer insisted he had

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