Man stabbed in heart hours after bride’s threat to kill him in Lancashire

A new bride was overheard telling her solicitor husband that she was going to kill him hours before he was found dead in bed having been stabbed in the heart, Manchester Crown Court has heard.

Sharon Edwards, 42, was witnessed by a police officer grabbing David Edwards’ shirt and saying, “I’m gonna fucking kill ya”, during the early hours of August 23 2015, shortly after they returned home from a Spanish holiday.

Edwards is accused of murdering the 51-year-old defence solicitor at their home in Chorley, Lancashire, using a kitchen knife on their two-month wedding anniversary.