04:55 EDT, 8 January 2021
A man accused of stabbing, strangling and beating his disability campaigner wife to death was frustrated that she wouldn t give him a divorce.
Raymond Hoadley, 62, is accused of murdering his wife Jackie, 58, two weeks after drawing up a contract which handed him their £1.3m savings if she died.
A jury at Lewes Crown Court in Hove were told the couple built up savings and investments worth £1m over a 25 year marriage and had a £300,000 house in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
Raymond Hoadley, 62, (pictured) is accused of murdering his wife Jackie after drawing up a contract which handed him their £1.3m savings if she died
TRIBUTES have been paid to a caring, true gentleman and former print worker who has died at the age of 81. Roger King worked in the press hall at the Evening Argus, as it was then known, from 1975 until 1989. He had began his career at Southern Publishing Ltd in 1962 as a hand compositor, arranging the text and pictures in the newspaper, before transferring to The Argus for 14 years. Roger, who lived in Patcham for 60 years, died peacefully at his home on December 17. Born on September 26, 1939 in Gloucestershire, Roger suffered a difficult start in life after contracting bovine tuberculosis at the age of seven.