Overview
- An 11-person jury deliberated for less than four hours before unanimously finding him guilty at Worcester Crown Court.
- Prosecutors said he stabbed 49-year-old Joanne Samak six times, driving a knife through her breastbone into her heart on 1 July 2024.
- Medical opinion, forensic testing and mobile-phone data undercut his claim that she stabbed herself.
- Police later found her blood on clothing he had hidden in the loft during a fresh search about 15 months after her death, and evidence showed he waited over an hour before calling 999.
- Judge James Burbidge said life imprisonment is mandatory, with the minimum term to be set at sentencing on 31 October 2025.