Days before a retired accountant strangled his wife, he told their daughter she had hit him with a slipper for the third time but he didn't fight back.
In the text, Engracio Songcuan said his wife was paranoid, and there was no other woman and he asked their daughter to calm her down.
His phone records and CCTV footage were part of agreed facts tendered in the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday.
The 75-year-old, known as Fred, has pleaded not guilty to murdering his 69-year-old wife Erlinda in their Woodcroft home on May 2, 2020.
He has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, claiming he was acting in self-defence or was provoked when he killed his wife in the family garage.
But the Crown submits Songcuan had engaged in a "deliberate act of vengeance" against his wife after their relationship deteriorated, and they frequently argued about money and infidelity.
Prosecutor Adrian Robertson on Thursday presented the jury with four documents which set out facts that were not in dispute between the parties.
Songcuan sent a text to the couple's daughter Catherine on the afternoon of April 30, days before he strangled his wife.
He asked her to calm her mother down, saying this was the third time she hit him with a slipper but he didn't fight back.
He said he loved his wife, there was no other woman.
The agreed facts also related to an analysis of one of the victim's phones, later found by her daughter under her mother's bed.
On the day before her death, the phone captured more than 24 images of bank statements and images of a birthday card, addressed to her husband, which she had found in the garage.
The records also showed a number of lengthy phone calls were made to the bank.
Ms Songcuan's older brother told the jury there were 15 siblings in their family, with some of them staying in the Philippines while others came to Australia.
He never heard of there being any trouble between his sister and her husband, who belonged to a Couples for Christ religious group.
Ms Songcuan's sister-in-law also said she had never heard the couple arguing and had heard no talk of them divorcing.
The last time she saw Linda, as her sister-in-law was known, was on April 6 on her last birthday before she died.
"Linda and Fred came to our house to pick up bananas and fish," she said.
"Because of COVID restrictions, I put them in the boot of the car and just waved to them."
The trial continues before Justice Stephen Campbell.
