Wife murdered after she told husband to leave

An estate agent has been found guilty of murdering his wife after she ordered him to leave their home on New Year’s Eve following claims of a lesbian affair.

Jurors convicted David Clark of the murder of Melanie Clark, 44, rejecting his account of being subjected to sexual humiliation and cruel remarks in the weeks before the killing.

South Africa-born Clark, 49, told his trial at Birmingham Crown Court he could remember nothing of stabbing his wife in the chest with a chef ’s knife at their home in Stoke Prior, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He will be sentenced next month.