A FORMER pub landlord who is on trial accused of murder today told a court of the moment he stabbed his wife with a ten-inch bayonet.

Paul Green took the stand at Ipswich Crown Court and recalled the attack on Sharon Green at the Old Bell pub in Marlesford last November.

The 59-year-old told jurors he plunged the weapon into his wife’s chest after she claimed she had been having an affair.

Green said: “I never thought she would have been unfaithful to me until she told me.”

He claimed Mrs Green had revealed she had been in a sexual relationship with two men.

Green said: “The last thing she said was ‘I go through the motions with you’.

“I remember stabbing her.

“She tried to stop me with her hands.”

Green, who was emotional on the stand, said he left soon after before driving his car into a tree on the A12 with the intention of killing himself.

“I thought I had killed my wife, my kids’ mum. I thought I would kill myself,” he said.

Green, of Main Road, Marlesford, denies murdering 53-year-old Mrs Green between November 19 and 20 last year. The trial continues.

See tomorrow’s newspaper for the full report of today’s hearing.