2:11pm Thursday 9th September 2010
A NEWLYWED who murdered his wife hid out in a Nantwich hotel whilst on the run from police, a court has heard.
Love rat Michael Roberts, aged 26, is standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with strangling his bride of five months, Victoria Wynne-Jones.
The court heard how the cheat started an affair with work colleague Kerrie Hall when training at the Crewe Phones 4 U store in April 2008.
Vicky then found out he was having a second affair on Facebook, before she died.
Prosecuting, David Steer QC said that Roberts killed her at the home they shared together on Partington Close, Daresbury on November 29 of last year.
The court heard that in October Vicky,’ a happy and caring individual, close to her family’, according to Mr Steer, became suspicious the defendant was having an affair with work colleague Karen Wilson after checking his Facebook page. He later confessed it was true but denied it was sexual.
Roberts had previously cheated on Vicky during their engagement and into their marriage with Ms Hall, who worked at the Crewe store for five years.
She trained the defendant before their 10 month relationship developed into ‘rough sex’, according to Ms Hall.
That affair ended in September 2009, but by October Roberts was cheating once again, this time with Ms Wilson.
They became so close that hours after Vicky died, he sent her a text message that read ‘good night beautiful, sweet dreams x’.
He then went shopping for party clothes in Chester the day after the murder allegedly took place, the court heard.
Vicky’s body was eventually found in her garage on December 3, wrapped in silver insulation sheets and duck tape.
Roberts escaped police before checking into the Crown Hotel in Nantwich the next day.
He stayed there for 48 hours before handing himself in to police in Wrexham.
The defendant denies murder and claims that Vicky’s death accidentally resulted from a sex game that went wrong during which he choked her with a tie from a dressing gown.
Defending, Neil Flewitt said: “The defendant always told people how much he loved Vicky and never spoke of her in a nasty or unkind way.
“He wanted to make the marriage work, and give things another try.”
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