Jealous Husband Killed Himself After Bludgeoned Wife With Hammer Before Stabbing Her To Death Over Affair

A jealous husband killed himself after he bludgeoned his wife with a hammer and stabbed her to death over an alleged affair, according to the Irish Mirror.

In 2013, 45-year-old Andrew Davies of Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, accused his wife, Yvonne, 46, of having an affair after discovering flirtatious text messages between his wife and a male colleague at the Central Manchester University Hospitals Trust, where she worked in the communications department.

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Yvonne reassured her husband that the message she sent to her colleague about “booking a room” was nothing more than having a bit of fun, but Andrew refused to let it go.

A year later, on January 16, 2014, Andrew took his 8-year-old daughter to school and afterwards sent a text message to his sister, saying “Sorry,” at 9:52 a.m. When he returned home, he bludgeoned his wife with a hammer just before stabbing her multiple times in the neck, killing her.

Yvonne was in the midst of getting ready to go to work when her husband attacked her. She was found lifeless, laying in a pool of blood in the kitchen of her home, with several knives adjacent to her body. Greater Manchester police also discovered an apology note on the computer keyboard from Andrew, who committed suicide by hanging after killing his wife, according to the Daily Mail.

Andrew had also slit both of his wrists prior to taking his own life.

Police officials later discovered that an argument erupted between the couple regarding Yvonne’s alleged affair just days before the murder suicide took place.

“In the last six months of their lives, [Mr. Davies] had disclosed to a couple of friends that ‘life was s**t’ “, said Manchester police officer Duncan Thorpe.

“Mr Davies created two text files containing a series of email messages between Yvonne and Mr. Clifton running from 2012 to 2013.

The implication, no more than that, was of an active sexual relationship between the two of them.”

After the murder-suicide, the police officer, Mark Clifton, who Andrew believed was having an affair with his wife, admitted in court that he and Yvonne were involved in an “infrequent affair.” He also stated that during the time of the murder, the two had already called it quits.

“At one time Andrew indicated to Yvonne that he believed we were having an affair. At that time that was not true. We had not been together for many years,” said Clifton.

“I had never described the relationship as an affair. We were very close friends and on occasions that friendship went too far.

That’s what it was. I was at my low point. Yvonne used to have this sixth sense. It was very infrequent.”

The coroner, John Pollard, who called the murder-suicide “desperately sad,” stated that he was “far from happy that the investigation was carried out as properly as it ought to have been, particularly with an off-duty officer wandering round what’s clearly a murder scene, which ought to have been forensically protected.”