‘Obsessive and controlling’ husband murdered wife and tried to make it look like suicide

Michael Thompson, 56, raped and smothered Kimberley Thompson, 43, at the house they shared in Northampton in the early hours of August 9 last year (Picture: Facebook)

A ‘jealous, obsessive and controlling’ man who tried to get away with murdering his estranged wife by staging the scene to make it look like she killed herself is facing a life sentence.

Michael Thompson, 56, raped and smothered Kimberley Thompson, 43, at the house they shared in Northampton in the early hours of August 9 last year.

He then went room to room gathering photos, packets of tablets and bottles of alcohol to try and ‘manufacture’ evidence of suicide before claiming he woke to find her dead.

But close friends and family described Kim as being the ‘happiest’ they had seen her in years, financially independent and ready to move out and move on with a new...