Man killed wife for teasing him about his Manhood size & Bed-wetting habit
A husband is accused of killing his wife after
she taunted him about his small manhood and
bed-wetting.
John Clinton knifed Paula, 48, his partner of 24
years, four times before trying to cut his own
throat, Liverpool crown court heard.
The 52-year-old had drunk 10 pints in his local
pub when he came home and found the 48-
year-old on the phone discussing divorce.
The court heard that as Mrs Clinton was on the
phone to the Citizens Advice Bureau, the
furious husband stabbed her body, hands, and
left eye.
The mother-of-two was next seen staggering
down the street bleeding heavily before
collapsing in Aintree, Liverpool, on November
28, last year.
Ian Unsworth, QC, prosecuting, said: “It is
apparent that the marriage was in some
difficulties in the days leading up to her death
and on the day itself.
“Paula was seeking advice as to divorce and the
financial arrangements which would follow.
“According to things she said to others the
reason she sought a divorce arose largely out
of the defendant’s drinking, culminating with
an incident in October when he was stopped by
the police as he was driving his vehicle and had
drunk in excess of the legal limit.
“That seems to have been the last straw so far
as she was concerned.”
When armed officers arrived at the scene of
the killing, they found Clinton had slashed his
wrists and neck in a “serious attempt” to kill
himself.
Blood was daubed over a set of papers marked
“ending a marriage,” Mr Unsworth said.
Clinton admits manslaughter, but denies
murder, claiming he ‘just lost it.’
And he told detectives he was pushed over the
edge by Mrs Clinton “galling him”, asking who
would look after him with his bed-wetting and
small manhood.
Mr Unsworth said that Clinton had threatened
his wife with a knife a few weeks before her
death and that “in drink he had become a bully
and a dangerous one at that”.
The trial continues.
Read more: Mirror News
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