Wife murderer jailed for life
Alan Evans, 35, from Kidderminster, has been found guilty of killing wife Louise in July last year by attacking her and throwing her down the stairs.. He has been jailed for life and must serve a minimum of 17 years.
Father-of-three guilty of murdering wife
A father-of-three has been found guilty of murdering his wife and childhood sweetheart at their home in Kidderminster.
After several hours of deliberations, the jury at Worcester Crown Court this morning returned a guilty verdict against 35-year-old Alan Evans.
His wife, 32-year-old Louise, was found dead at the bottom of their house in Stoney Lane, Kidderminster, in July last year.
She had been dead for around two hours before Evans called the ambulance.
He claimed he had been asleep and had not heard her fall - but the jury agreed with prosecutors' allegations that he attacked her and pushed her down the stairs.
He had been having an affair with local teaching assistant Amanda Chadwick, which finished a week before Louise's death.
Their relationship resumed just three months after she died.
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