Alleged Willenhall wife killer 'was aiming for her arm'
A spurned husband who 'stabbed his wife to death' after catching her at their home with another man has told a jury he was trying to strike her arm.
Kulwinder Kaur, 40, was wounded once in her neck, once on her shoulder and once in her side in the attack.
Giving evidence in his murder trial, Azad Singh said he was made 'mad' after his wife claimed their youngest son was not his.
The 46-year-old "couldn't exactly say" how the first wound, in Mrs Kaur's side, was inflicted but that he had the knife in his hand and she moved towards him.
Singh continued: "When she said I had touched her I said 'you are making a fool of me.'
"I turned the knife to the other side and I was trying to stab her in the arm. I didn't know at that time if I had stabbed in the arm or in the neck.
"I was trying to stab her in the arm but she bent down and to the left.
"I can't recall exactly how it happened because my brain was not functioning properly. That is what I think happened."
Mr Jo Sidhu QC, defending Singh, asked his client how the knife had ended up in her neck when he was aiming for her arm.
Singh, replied: "Because she had bent. She had bent almost to halfway.
"It was only when she fell down and I saw she was bleeding profusely that I realised I must have hit her neck."
The jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court have been told the attack took place on January 18 inside the married couple's tenth floor flat at the Pinnacle, in Gomer Street, Willenhall, Wolverhampton.
Singh had returned from work to find 41-year-old Majinder Virk hiding between his son’s beds.
After assaulting Mr Virk, who was able to escape the flat, the prosecution allege Singh murdered his wife.
Singh told the jury he had initially picked up the kitchen knife to 'scare' his wife.
He said his wife then taunted him which increased his anger.
"She said she was not going to divorce me," said Singh.
"She said she was going to do what she was doing and if I had caught her then so what.
"She said 'you are a fool and I have made a fool of you many times before.'
"She was coming towards me in an aggressive way and saying 'there are other men who are better than you in bed.'
"She was saying that 'you don't perform as well as them.'"
Singh has pleaded guilty to a charge concerning the attack on Mr Virk. He denies murder.
The trial continues.
