Ex wine boss ‘tried to strangle wife’

A former director of an international wine company tried to strangle his wife in a psychotic rage, a court heard. Rufus Weston, 45, knocked Erica Weston to the floor and put his hands around her neck at their west London home on 25 April last year. He then grabbed a fishing knife before trying to strangle his terrified wife a second time. Weston was appointed managing director for the UK and Europe for US wine, beer and spirit importer Winery…