Reading like something out of a novel, an Old Bailey jury was told that an “obsessively jealous” City banker strangled his wife during a row because her affairs had become “all too much” for him reports the BBC. Neil Ellerbeck, 46, was said to have recorded 127 hours of calls between wife Katherine, 45, and her lovers who included their son’s tennis coach.

Edward Brown QC, prosecuting, said: “The defendant is an ambitious and successful man. But he was a man with an obsessive and jealous nature.

“The defendant acted out of very considerable anger which got the better of the man – at the moment when the build-up of his wife’s behaviour became all too much for this obsessive and jealous man.”

Not wanting to play up stereotypes of the wealthy, jealous, cheating couple too much, it was revealed that both Ellerbeck and his wife had embarked on multiple affairs.

Mr Ellerbeck denies murder.

Banker ‘killed wife over affairs’ [BBC]