'Controlling' husband accused of raping and murdering wife before 'staging a scene' to make death look like suicide, told 999 call operator she was 'in bed with tablets and vodka', court hears ⊖⊖

Michael Thompson, 55, suffocated Kimberley, 43, before placing empty tablet packets and spirit bottles beside her to suggest she had either taken her own life or died in a 'terrible accident', jurors…