A JEALOUS husband tracked his solicitor wife to a liaison with her lover and stabbed him to death, a jury heard.

Oktay Kilic, 40, of Kent Drive, Harrogate, who denies murder, hid his mobile phone in the boot of his wife Kathleen’s car, and tracked her location via an online app.

Leeds Crown Court heard yesterday Mrs Kilic collected old school friend Mark Berney, 44, in Knaresborough on the night of August 3 last year, and drove to a quiet layby after having a drink together in the Boar’s Head, Ripley.

Kilic loaded their two children into his car and drove to their location in Whipley Lane.

Bryan Cox QC said Kilic was in a “murderous” frame of mind when he got there and saw the other couple, and he slashed at Mr Berney’s throat and repeatedly stabbed him with a kitchen knife.

A pathologist found the main artery and vein in his neck had been severed, and two chest wounds had passed through the heart. He died from blood loss.

Mr Cox said Kilic gambled, was in financial difficulties, and his wife found him “possessive, jealous and controlling”.

Mr Cox said: “It is plain that by the summer of 2014 the atmosphere in the home was a very unhappy one.”

“Whatever the rights and wrongs of the defendant’s relationship with his wife – and in his police interviews he was to try and blame her for the problems in the marriage – nothing can possibly justify what he did to Mark Berney.”

Kilic drove to his mother-in-law’s where he left the children.

He then abandoned his taxi in Leeds, and took a bus and a taxi to a friend’s home in Wigan.

His friend advised Kilic to give himself up, and drove him to Wigan police station.

CCTV in his vehicle recorded their conversation in Turkish in which Kilic said he was intending to claim insanity to minimise his responsibility.

He told police “I stabbed him, I hope he is not dead”, and went on to say he wanted only to hurt the man and denied he had intended to kill him.

The trial continues.