‘Please forgive me for accidentally slashing my wife’s throat’

A jealous husband wrote love letters begging for his estranged wife’s ‘forgiveness’ after slashing her throat with a meat-cleaver, a court heard. William Clapperton, 58, allegedly tried to snap his lover’s neck with his bare hands in an attack likened to a scene out of a film, the Old Bailey was told. Prosecutors claim he could not bear the thought of Napangkawarin ‘Pat’ Clapperton, his partner of 14 years, with another man. ‘If he could not have her then nobody…