Ladies Beware: Man stabs his wife to death for taunting his Manhood

A man inflicted multiple fatal stab wounds
on his wife after she taunted him about this
size of his manhood, a court heard.
John Clinton, 52, brutally attacked Paula
Clinton, his partner of 24 years, before
slashing his own throat in a bid to end his
life.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Mrs Clinton
became disgruntled about her husband's
heavy drinking and - on the day she was
killed - he arrived home from the pub to
find her discussing their prospective
divorce over the phone.
Clinton, who had drunk 10 pints, plunged a
knife into his wife's back four times during
a row at their home in Aintree, Liverpool,
on November 28 last year.
Jurors heard Clinton, a partner in a
company that makes concrete products,
would regularly stop at the pub on his way
home.
On the day she died Mrs Clinton had been
to visit the Citizens' Advice Bureau to
discuss dividing the couple's assets.
She was on the phone to one of their
advisers when Clinton came home drunk.
The mother-of-two, who worked at the Giro
social club in Bootle for 30 years, was seen
staggering from the family home and down
the street bleeding heavily before
collapsing.
She had multiple stab wounds to her body,
hands and her left eye and died from shock
and blood loss before paramedics arrived.
Armed police were called to the family
home where they found Clinton had
slashed his wrists and neck in a 'serious
attempt' to kill himself.
There was blood all over the house,
including splattered on a set of papers
marked 'ending a marriage'.
Clinton, who admits manslaughter but
denies murder, told detectives he had
killed his wife after he just 'lost it'.
He told police his wife was pushing him
and goading him, asking who would look
after him with his bed-wetting and small
manhood.
Ian Unsworth, QC, told Liverpool Crown
Court: 'It is apparent that the marriage was
in some difficulties in the days leading up
to her death and on the day itself.
'Paula was seeking advice as to divorce and
the financial arrangements which would
follow.
'According to things she said to others, the
reason she sought a divorce arose largely
out of the defendant’s drinking, culminating
with an incident in October when he was
stopped by the police as he was driving his
vehicle and had drunk in excess of the legal
limit.
'That seems to have been the last straw so
far as she was concerned.'
Mr Unsworth said Clinton had threatened
his wife with a knife a few weeks before her
death and that 'in drink he had become a
bully and a dangerous one at that'.
He added: 'No doubt the defendant bitterly
regrets his actions that night but it is clear
from what he has said that he does seek to
justify his actions, at least in part, by
painting a picture of his wife and her
conduct which is not a true picture.
'Whether it was the revelation that his wife
was seeking financial advice of her own or
something else that happened, this man,
with 10 pints inside him, lost his temper
but still had the presence of mind to go
into the kitchen, select a knife from the
drawer and go after his wife with it.'
The trial continues.