A CONVICTED man killed his lover then watched football on television as her dead body lay near him.
William Marshall attacked sports therapist Jennifer Edwards at her home in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in June last year.
Marshall then went on to take cash from the 45-year-old’s bank account.
It was days after the killing when Marshall dialled 999 claiming he had found his girlfriend dead.
However, a judge heard Marshall had earlier been spotted casually watching TV – despite Ms Edwards’s corpse also being in the bloodstained flat.
Marshall, 43, of Cowdenbeath, Fife, was apprehended following a large-scale police investigation.
He is now behind bars after he today/yesterday pled guilty to a charge of culpable homicide.
It emerged Marshall had previously been convicted of attacking Ms Edwards, who once told a friend she feared he would one day kill her.
The couple had been in a five-year relationship prior to the killing.
Ms Edwards had moved to Scotland from New Zealand in 2000. She was a sports therapist at a number of gyms before working from home.
The High Court in Glasgow heard Marshall was already known to be violent towards his lover.
In 2014 he was fined after being convicted of assaulting Jennifer to her injury.
Prosecutor Keith O’Mahony added there were a total of 84 “domestic incidents” logged by police.
The charge Marshall pled guilty to was that between the dates of June 8 and June 14 he killed Ms Edwards by “inflicting blunt force trauma to her head and body by means unknown”.
During those dates, Jennifer did not turn up for a dinner reservation for her birthday.
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