This article is from the source 'bbc' and was first published or seen on . It will not be checked again for changes.
You can find the current article at its original source at http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/hampshire/8331215.stm
The article has changed 9 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.
| Version 1 | Version 2 |
|---|---|
| Man convicted of wife's killing | Man convicted of wife's killing |
| (11 minutes later) | |
| A man has been convicted of killing his Vodafone executive wife after she admitted to having an affair. | A man has been convicted of killing his Vodafone executive wife after she admitted to having an affair. |
| Sally Sinclair, 40, was found with more than 30 stab wounds and "sawing wounds" to her neck at her home in Amport, Hampshire, in August 2008. | Sally Sinclair, 40, was found with more than 30 stab wounds and "sawing wounds" to her neck at her home in Amport, Hampshire, in August 2008. |
| At the time she was head of business analysis at the mobile phone firm's world headquarters near Newbury. | At the time she was head of business analysis at the mobile phone firm's world headquarters near Newbury. |
| Alisdair Sinclair, 48, was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. | Alisdair Sinclair, 48, was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. |
| 'Cut off head' | |
| He was cleared of murder at Winchester Crown Court. | He was cleared of murder at Winchester Crown Court. |
| Sinclair, of Georgia Lane, Amport, had admitted he and his wife were involved in a knife fight in which she died. | |
| Mrs Sinclair was killed in a "frenzied attack" on 16 August 2008, the court has been told. | |
| She was attacked by her husband of 21 years, who used several knives. | |
| Jurors had been told Sinclair attempted to cut off her head, cutting through her carotid artery and her spinal cord in what was described as a sawing action. | |
| He will be sentenced on Friday. |