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| Man guilty of murdering his wife | Man guilty of murdering his wife |
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| A man has been convicted of murdering his wife while he was on licence from prison for wounding his former partner. | |
| Simon Downer, 32, from Wilnecote, in Staffordshire, was convicted after his eight-year-old stepdaughter gave evidence against him during the trial. | Simon Downer, 32, from Wilnecote, in Staffordshire, was convicted after his eight-year-old stepdaughter gave evidence against him during the trial. |
| She managed to disarm him before he grabbed another knife and stabbed his 40-year-old wife Tracey last June. | |
| The girl told Birmingham Crown Court Downer had then told her: "That's what you get if you push it with me." | |
| He will be sentenced later. | |
| Violent argument | |
| The jury was told Downer had met his wife after absconding from an open prison in 2007 where he was serving a six-year sentence for wounding his ex-partner. | |
| He went back to jail and the couple married the day after he was released in April last year. | |
| In video evidence to the court, his stepdaughter, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she was woken up last June by the sound of a violent argument. | |
| She saw her stepfather attacking her mother and managed to grab a knife from his hand. | |
| He then found another, larger, knife in the kitchen with which he murdered his wife. |