A cheating husband was today found guilty of murdering his wife and then storing her body in a plastic car roof box in the garden of the family home.
A jury took less than two hours to convict Andre Genestin of using a mallet to crush the skull of his wife Catherine as she sat on their lounge sofa.
In the weeks after the murder, which happened some time over the weekend of May 11 and 14 last year, French national Genestin carried on life as normal.
He attempted to allay the concerns expressed by family and friends by insisting his wife was prone to disappearing and she would return home to Maresfield Road, Brighton, East Sussex, in a few weeks.
Judge Anthony Scott Gall, sitting at Lewes Crown Court, said unemployed Genestin, 48, had been convicted on the "most compelling evidence".
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