{"id":215051,"date":"2023-10-03T18:29:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T18:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=215051"},"modified":"2023-10-03T18:29:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T18:29:31","slug":"husband-who-bugged-home-to-spy-on-uni-lecturer-wife-stabbed-her-to-death-just-hours-after-she-made-chilling-prediction-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/husband-who-bugged-home-to-spy-on-uni-lecturer-wife-stabbed-her-to-death-just-hours-after-she-made-chilling-prediction-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband 'who bugged home to spy on uni lecturer wife stabbed her to death just hours after she made chilling prediction' | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
A HUSBAND stabbed his university lecturer wife to death just 24 hours after she made a chilling prediction, a court heard.<\/p>\n
Ertan Ersoy, 51, is accused of knifing Dr Antonella Castelvedere, 52, "many times" at their home in Colchester<\/span>, Essex.<\/p>\n He then ran out on to the street saying he thought he had killed his wife following the horror<\/span> on June 1 last year, it is said.<\/p>\n Prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC told jurors today Ersoy's "anger, jealousy and his failings led to him killing his wife".<\/p>\n Chelmsford Crown Court heard the couple married in 2014 and shared a daughter but their relationship "appeared to be volatile, unstable and rocky".<\/p>\n Ersoy believed his wife, who taught an MA in English and creative writing at the University of Suffolk, was cheating.<\/p>\n He bugged the family home with a listening device but this "proved no such thing", it was said.<\/p>\n Ersoy had also searched for a private investigator online and was allegedly "obsessed" with his wife's previous relationships.<\/p>\n On one occasion, he followed her to work and accused her of "betrayal", the court heard.<\/p>\n Before her death, Dr Castelvedere had told a friend her husband had "fallen back into a dark state of mind and I fear for my safety".<\/p>\n <\/picture>SUPERMARKET SWEEP <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>huge loss <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>ART ATTACK<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>WORKING IT OUT <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Mr Paxton said: "She was right to fear for her safety because just hours later the defendant, perhaps letting his guard down, told a friend that at times he wanted to kill his wife Antonella to get it over and done with.<\/p>\n "Within 24 hours Antonella lay dead on the kitchen floor in the family home she shared with her husband Mr Ersoy."<\/p>\n Dr Castelvedere had suffered a 15cm knife wound on her neck that \u00a0"resulted in severe blood loss, cardiac arrest and her death", jurors heard.<\/p>\n She also had 15 "sharp force" injuries to her face, neck, chest and hands.<\/p>\n Police later discovered notes she made on her phone leading up to the killing – including one in December 2021 where Ersoy had sent links to sites "on the topic of obsession with ex-boyfriend".<\/p>\n Another from August 2021 read: "Questioning where I went, I asked him not to go back to attitude of three months earlier."<\/p>\n While one in October 2021 told how Ersoy had allegedly got drunk and "threatened" his wife.<\/p>\n Jurors were told Ersoy claimed he had been stabbed by Dr Castelvedere, which caused two shallow wounds to his stomach.<\/p>\n Mr Paxton said there was "no independent evidence" his wife had caused the injuries.<\/p>\n The dad claims he was suffering from an "abnormality of mental functioning that arose from a medical condition, depression" at the time of the stabbing, the court heard.<\/p>\n
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