Neighbours heard wife’s screams as she was battered to death

A jealous husband was heard battering his estranged wife to death with a piece of wood after she broke off their 50-year marriage and moved in with ‘some bloke she met on the internet’, a court was told. David Thomas, 74, is said to have stabbed and bludgeoned Sheila, 69, at their former matrimonial home in Herne Hill, south London, when she turned up to collect some belongings. Mrs Thomas had begun an affair with Victor Cassar, 74, whom she…