At the time of his trial in June 2003 Randle Williams was called “evil” and “deceitful” - he even shed tears at his wife, Natalie’s funeral.

Three years into a life sentence he has admitted that he strangled and then drowned her in April 2002.

Before admitting murder to Wiltshire Police, he first claimed she had asked him to kill her.

Mrs Automobile finance insurance body was recovered from the river at Bradford on Avon less than two days after her husband told police she had disappeared after taking the dog for a walk.

She had first been strangled and then held under water.

Insurance claim

Williams dumped his sodden clothes in undergrowth 12 miles away.

Natalie had been strangled and drowned

When her body was discovered he was arrested-and then released by police.

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then tracked him to a lay-by at Biss Bottom, near Warminster, where they found green bin liners full of his wife’s wet clothes and trainers.

Williams tried to hide his guilt, covering his tracks with an elaborate plan to claim a 500,000 insurance policy.

He was in financial trouble - the IT company he had set up had gone into liquidation and his debts were spiralling out of control.

He had applied for 665,000 life insurance for himself and his 33-year-old wife which included a 500,000 company finance insurance premium death benefit while the policies were being drawn up.

After his wife’s death, Williams tried to make a claim, not realising his wife’s application had been turned down and not telling the insurers he had been charged with her murder.