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