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The motive behind a husband who stabbed his wife to death but claimed she had taken her own life has been revealed in court.

Mohamed Samak, 43, had denied murdering Joanne Samak, 49, claiming he woke up at around 3am on July 1 last year to see her stabbing herself at their home in Chestnut Spinney, in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire.

But prosecutors said Samak, a former Egyptian international hockey player and coach who worked with the Wales under-18s team, killed his wife because he was suffering financial problems and had become interested in another woman.

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Samak told the trial his wife took her own life and was struggling with alcohol and mental health problems, although friends and

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