A hockey coach accused of his wife’s murder portrayed her as an alcoholic as part of a “character assassination” to support his “lies” that she took her own life, a court has heard.
Mohamed Samak, 42, claims he woke up at around 3am on July 1 last year to see his interior designer wife Joanne Samak, 49, stabbing herself at their home in Chestnut Spinney, Droitwich Spa.
