Man found guilty of killing wif

A SOUTH Australian man has been found guilty of suffocating his estranged wife and trying to make her death look like suicide. He had been accused of killing Melissa Allen in port Augusta in July 2008.

In this case, Allen strangled his wife in a shed at their matrimonial home and tried to cover it up by making it look like she had committed suicide. During the prosecution, Allen had always sustained that he got his wife down by unknotting the rope and then tried unsuccessfully to revive her.

On the other hand, the prosecutor revealed that a witness heard a scream come from the shed well before Allen raised the alarm. Moreover, the jury had heard evidence Ms Allen was murdered because she planned to divorce her husband. Witnesses also told the court that Allen had publicly accused his wife of cheating.

On Monday, Allen will return to court for sentencing submissions.