‘Evil’ husband who tried to stage wife’s murder as ‘suicide’ is jailed for life

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A husband who raped and murdered his wife then tried to cover it up as a suicide was branded a ‘coward’ for refusing to face her family and friends as he was jailed for life. Michael Thompson, 56, subjected Kimberley Thompson to years of domestic abuse and controlling behaviour before he killed her at their Northampton home in the early hours of August 9 last year. Their daughter, Athena, told Nottingham Crown Court Thompson is a ‘jealous, conniving, narcissistic villain’ who ‘couldn’t stand the fact [her mum] had so many people who cared about her’. Jurors returning to watch the sentencing hearing wiped away tears as she read her statement via video-link from the US, saying: ‘How