Harry Hill's TV Burp row 'led to stabbing'

A wife accused of stabbing her husband to death after a row about what to watch on TV had wanted to see Harry Hill instead of football, the Old Bailey has heard. Leonora Sinclair, 50, is alleged to have plunged a knife into husband Lloyd’s thigh before the 73-year-old bled to death.

Bobbie Cheema, prosecuting at the Old Bailey, said Sinclair had claimed Mr Sinclair fell on a broken wine glass but a knife with traces of blood was found in the kitchen. Jurors heard how she fainted and was taken to hospital in an ambulance with a policewoman.



Pc Gillian Bills said Sinclair told her on the way: 'We had an argument about what to watch on TV. He wanted to watch football and I wanted to watch Harry Hill. He got annoyed and smashed the glass on the floor in the hallway and left the house for approximately 20 minutes.'

She said that when he came back he went upstairs and called her to ring for an ambulance. Sinclair, of Enfield, north London, denies murdering her husband in January.