Overview
- Knight, 36, changed his plea to guilty on the first day a two-week trial was due to begin at Northampton Crown Court.
- Police say he strangled his 32-year-old wife at their Burton Latimer home on June 13 while their two daughters slept, with a post‑mortem citing pressure to the neck.
- The next morning he asked his mother to take the children, made unsuccessful suicide attempts, then crashed his car at a nearby McDonald’s where officers became suspicious and searched the house.
- Detectives described the killing as fuelled by jealousy, and a mandatory life sentence applies for murder with the judge to set the minimum term at sentencing.
- Family members told the Daily Mail she had planned to leave him after what they described as years of controlling and verbal abuse.