Samak, a former Egyptian international hockey player and coach who had worked with the under-18 Welsh national team, was also questioned by officers about why he told them he had found his wife dead on the bed, before saying he saw her stabbing herself.
Egyptian national Mohamed Samak denies the murder of 49-year-old interior designer Joanne Samak in the early hours of July 1 last year, claiming she had stabbed herself “repeatedly” before he found her slumped on a bed with a knife in her stomach at their home in Chestnut Spinney, Droitwich Spa.
In a police interview on July 3 following his arrest on suspicion of murder, of which a transcript was read to the jury on Wednesday, Samak was told by officers that his wife had confessed to a friend that she did not love him and “I wish I could divorce him”.
The trial was previously told that Samak had made a call to a debt advice service and shared worries about not being able to pay his portion of the household bills, which his wife would ask him to send to her every month.
Samak, 42, claimed his wife was suffering with mental health and alcohol issues but the prosecution in a murder trial at Worcester Crown Court allege he killed her after becoming interested in another woman and experiencing financial difficulties.
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