Husband 'strangled wife then stabbed himself to make it look like she attacked him with kitchen knife before she committed suicide'

A husband strangled his wife before stabbing himself with a kitchen knife to make it appear as if she had killed herself after attacking him, a court heard. Stephen Barnsdale-Quean, 43, allegedly used a rolling pin to tighten a noose around his wife Chantelle's neck as he strangled her in bed. A jury was told how he allegedly twisted the rolling pin six times to tighten a black picture chain around his wife's neck. He had earlier made the ligature, using the chain and an elasticated hair bobble, which he slipped over her neck before using the rolling pin to tighten it. A jury at Sheffield Crown Court heard how Barnsdale-Quean claimed his 35-year-old wife, who was suffering from depression, 'frenziedly' attacked him with a kitchen knife which was still stuck in his abdomen when paramedics arrived. The father-of-two later told police she had used the ligature to kill herself at the flat they shared in Darfield, near Barnsley, on March 4 this year.

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