Andrew Wadsworth, a former skilled MMA fighter from the UK, is to be sentenced after being convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend after she ‘confessed to being a prostitute who slept with members of her household’.
Wadsworth, 37, who holds a 2-2 skilled file contained in the cage, confessed to stabbing 32-year-old Melissa Belshaw to loss of life at a residence in Wigan, Better Manchester final Could – telling the courtroom that he “misplaced management” after Belshaw admitted that she had been working as an escort.
He stated that the admission left him felling “humiliated and betrayed,” notably after he recounted that Belshaw informed him that she had slept with two members of her family. She additionally allegedly informed him that she was concerned in arranging a bodily assault on Wadsworth prior to now.
Wadsworth was additionally discovered responsible of a separate cost of tried homicide of one other one who he stabbed repeatedly exterior the scene of the crime – one thing he known as a “horrible mistake” after making an attempt to confess the lesser cost of ‘wounding with intent to trigger severe harm’.
He was cleared, although, of expenses associated to threats to kill Belshaw’s 13-year-old daughter who alleged that he had held a knife to her throat in the course of the rampage.
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Chatting with the courtroom, prosecutors described Wadsworth and Belshaw’s relationship as “risky” and that it centered round “drink, medication and intercourse“.
Additionally they warned the courtroom to not tackle board rumors about Belshaw’s intercourse life which they stated was an try to “shift blame” from the “chilly and callous homicide.”
Wadsworth is predicted to be handed a life sentence when he’s jailed Thursday, in line with the Manchester Night Information.
