A sex mad male nurse strangled his wife with a pyjama top and staged a fake car crash in a bid to cover-up his crime, a court heard.
Brent Mott murdered Kate Mott, 35 - also a nurse - in the early hours of 21st January 2010 and then hauled her body to the family car, Liverpool Crown Court was told.
Brent Mott, 32, - described as "jealous" and "sex obsessed" - was banned by a court injunction from entering a makeshift bedroom where Kate was sleeping at their home in Southport.
The couple, who both worked at Southport and District General Hospital, married in April 2004 had two children, Olivia, 3, and Lewis, aged 13 months.
When first quizzed by detective about her death Mott had admitted that he had argued with Kate, a specialist intensive care unit nurse, when she spurned his sexual advances.
An injunction issued on 9th November 2009 prevented Mott from entering Kate's makeshift bedroom in the downstairs lounge at their semi-detached house in Everard Road, Southport.
He said he had never touched her sexually while the injunction was in place but a post mortem examination revealed deposit's of Mott's semen in her vagina.
A shaven-headed Mott, dressed in a black suit with blue shirt and tie, denies murder and claims he acted in self-defence when she launched at him with a knife.
On 7th June 2010 his legal team informed the prosecution that he was "instrumental" in causing her death.
In his account of how she met her end Mott said that the couple were arguing at their £150,000 red-brick home when she lunged at him with a knife.
He said he lost self-control and retaliated and used her pyjama top to strangle her but had not intended to kill her.
When he realised she was dead he decided to mock-up a road accident and make it seem that she had died at the wheel.
Mr Nigel Power, QC, prosecuting told the court that it was the overwhelming scientific evidence that prompted Mott to admit killing his wife.
Mr Power said: "Once he had killed her, the defendant then changed her clothes, put her into the family car and drove her to a track on some farmland just north of Southport, where he attempted to make it appear that she had died in a road traffic accident.
"The next morning he acted as if she was still alive, phoning her mother and ultimately the police, apparently worried about her whereabouts.
"All this the defendant now admits; but it has not always been the case. He was interviewed extensively by the police about the events surrounding his wife's death and steadfastly denied that he had killed her.
"It was only on the 7th June 2010 that legal advisers informed the court and the prosecution that he was instrumental in causing the death of his wife and that no other person was involved."
He said a financial settlement was agreed on 20th January 2010 allowing Kate to keep the family home in return for paying a lump sum of £15,000 to her husband.
The body of partially deaf Kate was found slumped in the driver's seat of a blue Ford Focus hatchback in open fields near the Martin Mere Wildfowl Reserve in Scarisbrick, Lancashire
The keys were the ignition and her seat-belt was fastened but there was no sign of collision damage and the airbags had not been triggered.
Mr Power told how on the following morning Mott sent text messages to the dead woman's mobile phone, inquiring where she was about the whereabouts of the car keys.
He also texted Kate's mother Janet Beech, to see if she knew where her daughter had gone.
Mr Power said that around 2pm on 21st January Mott called police to report his wife missing, telling them 'I hope she has not done something stupid" and claiming that she had been playing "mind games" and had "lost the plot".
He told police she had consistently told him: "You watch your back you bastard. I will set you up."
Mr Power also told the court how Mott constantly demanded sex after the birth of the couple's daughter Olivia.
Mr Power said: "After Olivia's birth the defendant was obsessed with sex and constantly pestered her, groping her and putting his hand down her top.
"When she was pregnant with Lewis he asked the hospital staff if it was still safe to have sex at the 20-week scan.
"At Christmas 2008, days after Lewis was born, amongst the presents that the defendant bought for her were sex books, a sex game and underwear which her mother was upset at and removed."
Mr Power told the court that as their relationship became ever more strained Mott complained to colleagues that his wife would not have sex with him.
Mr Power said: "The defendant's verbal abuse increased and he touched Kate inappropriately, creeping-up behind her and touching her between the legs, even in Olivia's presence.
"One night he came home drunk and went into the room that she slept in downstairs and put his hands down the trousers of her pyjamas but left after a struggle."
The case continues and is expected to last three weeks.
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