A successful businessman ended up in a prison cell after threatening to arrange for a hitman to murder his wife.
Huseyin Erdogan boasted several businesses here in the UK and in his native Turkey, including shops and restaurants. But he is now beginning a 23-month jail sentence after a subjecting his partner to sickening domestic abuse.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that the 54-year-old was confronted by his wife Samara at the Istanbul Grill on Mersey Street in Warrington town centre on April 1 this year. Peter Wilson, prosecuting, described how she believed he was having an affair, but Erdogan responded by shouting "you are a stupid w***e" and slapping her in the face - causing bleeding to her ear.
