Symbol copyright Facebook Image caption Melanie Clark was once found useless on the couple’s home in Worcestershire
A husband accused of stabbing his spouse to dying at house has claimed she might “taunt” him and “say terrible issues” approximately his body, a court heard.
David Clark denies murdering his wife Melanie, 44, in the early hours of latest Year’s Day at their house in Cloverdale, Stoke Earlier, near Bromsgrove.
Mr Clark said his spouse would “almost always” belittle the scale of his penis.
A jury at Birmingham Crown Court Docket heard how the comments had made the FORTY NINE-12 months-old really feel “insufficient” and “unhappy”.
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Mr Clark’s barrister Alisdair Williamson QUALITY CONTROLS requested him about about a WhatsApp conversation between him and his spouse concerning his penis measurement in January 2016.
Asked what he concept she supposed whilst she said “yours isn’t that small”, he answered: “That she was once speaking approximately my penis.”
Mr Williamson then asked: “Is that one thing she often mentioned? What would she say about it?”
He spoke back: “She could nearly always refer to it. Simply say it used to be small.”
Asked how she could make him feel normally, he answered: “Like I wasn’t worth it – like I wasn’t a man.”
‘Laughing at you’
The court heard how the couple rowed about an alleged tryst Mrs Clark had with a friend’s daughter, in spite of a “pinkie promise” to by no means speak of the liaison.
The loved one slept in Mrs Clark’s bed and he heard the ladies “giggling and talking”.
The night time Mrs Clark died, she cited the alleged stumble upon “in a nasty approach”.
“Like she was happy with what she had done,” Mr Clark told jurors.
A text was once sent to him by Mrs Clark announcing: “They’re guffawing at you David – they have got been for the closing 10 years.”
Combined up shirts
The couple moved to England in 2011 having married in South Africa in 2004.
The courtroom heard how Mr Clark had a “explicit way” of arranging his belongings. He broke down claiming she had as soon as intentionally blended up his paintings shirts.
He mentioned: “She may modification issues, on purpose, move my stuff so i could not find it.”
Mr Clark, who used to be born in South Africa however has a British passport, claimed his wife had an issue with alcohol and was once “now not delightful to be round” when ingesting.
“It never stopped. It used to be virtually each and every night.”
The trial maintains.
