‘Husband took out £300,000 life assurance policy on his wife before he killed her’

A jealous husband who strangled his wife to death and set fire to her body after learning she was about to leave him stood to gain £300,000 from a life insurance policy he took out a month before the murder, a court heard. Thomas Peter, 50, forced a cloth down wife Karen Peter’s throat before throttling her at their semi-detached home in Romford, east London, in the early hours of August 2 last year. He became furious after learning that…