In the third week of a trial at Worcester Crown Court, junior prosecution counsel Tom Walkling read out an agreed facts document, including details of a court hearing two days after the death at which Samak said he had changed his account because he was scared.
The court has previously heard Samak, a former Egyptian international hockey player and coach who had worked with the under-18 Welsh national team, was 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 murdering 49-year-old interior designer Joanne Samak in the early hours of July 1 last year, claiming she 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, Worcestershire.
A former international hockey player accused of stabbing his wife to death told a previous court hearing he “couldn’t keep lying any more” about his account of her death, a jury has heard.
Before the close of the Crown’s case, the court was shown the knife found in the victim’s abdomen after a 999 call made by Samak between 4.09am and 4.20am on July 1.
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