Husband whose wife was planning to divorce him beat her to death with a hammer

A jilted husband bludgeoned his wife to death with a hammer before stabbing himself 28 times, a coroner has heard.

David Connaughton, 60, killed his wife Julie after researching murder on the internet by typing 'When someone p***** you off, is it worth killing them?' into a search engine website.

A coroner heard Connaughton discovered his wife was planning to divorce him before carrying out the vicious attack, in which he hit her at least 22 times.

He then killed himself with a knife after covering her face with a bag, Chesterfield Coroners Court has heard.

Police officers discovered the couple, who had been married for nine years and both had grown up children from previous relationships, on their bed at their home in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, after Mrs Connaughton's daughter Emily Corless raised the alarm.

Source-Dailym