MURDER ACCUSED 'BEGGED FOR SEX'.
Byline: Emma StoneA MAN accused of murdering his Coventry-born wife asked another woman for sex two days before the alleged killing, a court has been told.
Paul Grabham's trial was also told he suggested having a "onenight stand". Later, while in prison awaiting trial, Grabham wrote to the same woman to complain he was missing sex and his car.
Details of the contact he had with Samantha Jenkins before and after his wife's death emerged on day nine of his Swansea Crown Court trial. The 25-year-old denies murdering his 24-year-old wife on March 28. He allegedly killed Mrs Grabham at their Swansea flat, then dumped her body in a suitcase near the M4.
The couple both worked as prostitutes. They married in 2008 after meeting at a Bridgend brothel.
Miss Jenkins told the court she first met Grabham five years ago.
"We became friends but were never boyfriend and girlfriend," she said.
For two years they lost touch but on March 22 last year Grabham turned up out of the blue. "He said he just wanted to catch up," she said.
Grabham told Miss Jenkins his wife was called Kirsty but they had argued and "weren't getting along."
"He said she had smashed his car up and had tried to get him with a knife," said Miss Jenkins. "He showed me a nick on his finger from when he got the knife off her."
Miss Jenkins explained she next saw Grabham when he arrived at her home on March 26.
She said: "He said he and his wife were sorting things out but I thought this was strange because he then asked me to set him up with one of my friends for a onenight stand. He also asked me for a onenight stand."
Miss Jenkins, who rejected both requests, said it was possible that Grabham was joking. She also told the court he sent her letters from Swansea Prison.
One of them, read out by Greg Taylor QC, contained the following words: "It's not as bad as I thought. Just missing my car and sex - you know what I'm like."
The case continues.
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| Publication: | Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) |
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| Geographic Code: | 4EUUK |
| Date: | Jan 28, 2010 |
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