A FORMER cage fighter yesterday claimed he stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death after being overwhelmed by revelations about her sex life.
Andrew Wadsworth, 37, told a court he lost control when beautician Melissa Belshaw admitted being a sex worker “at some level” while they were together.
He claimed she also confessed to having sex with two of her relatives.
He said: “I never felt such an intense feeling of being overwhelmed.”
Ms Belshaw, 32, had told Wadsworth earlier she received £1,200 a week for spending two hours with a sugar daddy but denied being an escort, Manchester crown court heard.
Wadsworth said Ms Belshaw confessed to having multiple partners and admitted helping to set up a robbery in which he broke his back.
He accepts killing her in a bedroom at her Wigan home after boozing and taking cocaine.
But he denies murder, insisting: “I didn’t intend to kill.”
He also denies trying to murder a neighbour of Ms Belshaw and threatening her daughter, 13.
The trial continues.
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