Northampton murder trial: Unhappy domestic life of Thompsons revealed in texts and messages
The trial was given an insight into the Thompsons unhappy marriage yesterday as texts between the two were read to the jury
By Sarah Ward
The unhappy marriage of Kim and Michael Thompson was revealed in a series of texts and messages between the pair read to the court yesterday.
The jury that has been sitting at Nottingham Crown Court since May 21 has to decide whether Michael Thompson raped and murdered his wife Kimberley at their Northampton home on August 9 last year.
The prosecution’s case is that after years of abuse, former baliff, Thompson, 56, killed his younger wife, 43, and then staged a fake suicide, placing alcohol and pills near her bedside.