Wife-killing ex-Marine faces life

GUILTY OF MURDERING SCOT ANNE

This affair had been uncovered near June last year, he said.

In a 999 call made on December 30 last year and played to jurors, Searle told police: “I’ve just killed my wife.”

Officers attended their home in Stowmarket, Suffolk, within

minutes of the call being made at 10.19pm, and found Anne, who was born in Glasgow, dead.

“The prosecution case is that on that Saturday night, there had probably been yet another row between the two of them and in anger, the defendant strangled his wife to death,” Jackson said.

A post-mortem examination recorded that Anne died of compression of the neck.

Forensic pathologist Dr Benjamin Swift said she would have lost consciousness after about eight to 15 seconds of pressure being applied to her neck.

He added that death required further sustained pressure for a period of minutes. Searle had been married to his wife for 45 years and they had three sons together.

Jackson said that at Christmas last year, Anne wrote on Facebook: “Happy Christmas to you all. Hope you are doing well.

“Have a good day. I hope I will still be here in 2018. We will see.”

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GUILTY Searle, left, alongside Nigel Farage during his days as a councillor for Ukip

TRAINED Searle used a technique from his military days to kill his wife