Newly-wed dead for four days before being found (From Runcorn and Widnes World)

Newly-wed dead for four days before being found

4:15pm Thursday 2nd September 2010 in

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A COURT has heard how the wife of a 'serial cheat' had died at her home four days before police found her body.

Prosecutors opening their case said Michael Roberts, aged 26, who is charged with his wife Victoria Wynne-Jones' murder, had hid the death through a web of deceit.

David Steer, prosecuting said he told her parents and colleagues Victoria, originally from Warrington, had left him for another man when in fact she had been killed and hid her body hid at their address at Partington Square, Daresbury.

Liverpool Crown Court heard today how the day after she died Roberts went for a two-course meal with mistress Karen Wilson in Mold.

Christopher Trevor, the owner of the pub they visted, remarked on how the couple were 'loved up, all over each other and kissing and touching'.

When officers finally discovered her body on December 3 last year wrapped up in sheets and duct tape following a missing person report from her father Roberts went on the run.

He was arrested in Wrexham on December 6.

Throughout the hearing Roberts wept and repeatedly needed to use an inhaler.

He was also seen to block his ears when details of a letter sent to a mutual friend following his arrest were read out in court saying 'When I lost Vicky I lost a part of me'.

Roberts denies murdering his wife.

The trial continues tomorrow.