A British man who claimed his partner was 'obsessively jealous and beat him' has been jailed for 25 years for stabbing her to death in their Italian dream home.
Michael Whitbread, 75, brutally murdered mother-of-three Michele Faiers, 66, before driving across Europe back to the UK in an attempt to flee justice.
Ms Faiers was discovered by a worried friend who had alerted police when she failed to answer calls.
She was found in a bedroom of the house she shared with IT consultant Whitbread in November 2023 but she had died two days earlier.
Her body was covered by a sheet, dressed only in her underwear and had been callously stabbed nine times – eight in the back and once in the chest.
