Rossendale Free Press

Accused ‘spoke of getting rid of wife’

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SARAH Williams spoke of ‘getting rid’ of the wife of a fellow ski instructor she had an affair with, a jury has heard.

Friends of Ms Williams said she believed she could be together with Somapat Sitiwatjan­a, 47, if his wife, Janet, 45, ‘wasn’t in the picture’.

One friend told her she was living in ‘a dream world’ and called her ‘Sarah the crank’, while another said Ms Williams was ‘a bunny boiler’, Preston Crown Court heard.

Kerry Williams, a former workmate of the accused, said the defendant was ‘besotted’ with Mr Sitiwatjan­a - known in local martial arts circles as Master A.

She said: “There was a time when we were at my house and Sarah was talking about Master A, who was the topic of most conversati­ons.

“She said, ‘Oh, I just need to get rid of her now’, referring to his wife. As I told Sarah quite often, I said, ‘you can’t do things like that’.’”

She said Ms Williams made several stabbing gestures to her head whilst making the ‘Psycho’ sound, made famous in the Alfred Hitchcock film.

The witness added: “Sarah was besotted with Master A. That Master A was leaving his wife and they would be getting together, having children, Thai babies, and moving to Thailand.”

She said Ms Williams would refer to Master A’s wife as a ‘bitch’ and that she realised the relationsh­ip had ended when conversati­ons turned ‘sour’, and Ms Williams’s actions had become stalker-like. know about the sort of

Another friend, scumbag you are married Michaela Burns,to...”described Ms Williams as ‘a bunny Ms Williams wrote that boiler’ and that her friends she had been in a would laughingly say Ms relationsh­ip with Mr Williams was ‘not right in Sitiwatjan­a for more than a the head’ and was called year and they were ‘Sarah the crank’. ‘absolutely in love with

Anthony Cross QC, each other’, the jury was defending murder told. co-accused Katrina Walsh, References were made said: “When you were to to text messages that were find out she was now ‘explicit in the extreme’ involved with a man in his and that the lovers were 50s, a fireman - when she ‘seeing each other a couple was telling you about that of times a week, texting did you just roll your eyes incessantl­y and making and think, ‘here we go love whenever we could’. again’?” Another reference was

Ms Burns said: “I did made to Mr Sitiwatjan­a when she told me he had a being ‘a liar, cheat and a partner and it sounded like total bastard’ as the sender she had got herself in the wrote: “I told him to stop same situation.” it. I warned him I would

Mrs Sitiwatjan­a told the blow him out of the water court she found out her if he continued. Now it’s husband had been time for him to pay the unfaithful when Ms price.” Williams visited her home In September 2012, Mrs when he was away in Sitiwatjan­a reported Ms Thailand in May 2012. Williams to the police with

A letter from Williams claims that she was disclosing ‘full chapter and harassing her with verse’ about the unwanted texts and visits relationsh­ip was later to her home, where she delivered by hand to her would ‘stare’ at her from a home, the court heard. car parked on the other

The letter began: “Dear side of the road. The trial Janet, I think you should continues.

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