Jealous husband ‘tried to snap wife’s neck’

A jealous husband tried to snap his wife’s neck after hacking at her with a meat cleaver in an attack likened to a film, the Old Bailey heard. William Clapperton, 58, left his lover covered in blood from wounds to her neck, jaw, and eyes on 17 February this year, prosecutors claim. He then collapsed on their bed and began to slash at himself in a crazed fury, jurors were told. Police discovered him bleeding and rushed him to hospital…