THE former wife of quadruple killer Mark Hobson is to feature in a new TV documentary series about the spouses of some of Britain’s most notorious murderers.

The programme’s makers say that Kay Stopford, understood to be from Selby, has spoken on camera about the time when, unwittingly, she found herself “married to a murderer.”

A spokesman said: “Hobson had once been happily married to Kay and a loving father of a daughter and two step-children.”

The hour-long documentary, to be screened in December on the Sky Crime & Investigation Network, will be the sixth in a series called Married To A Murderer.

The spokesman said each episode would tell the story of a marriage and a murder, or series of murders, and the parallel tale of a criminal investigation. “These are stories about the creeping suspicions and the tell-tale signs and the subsequent trauma of dealing with the horrible truth that the man you love is a violent killer,” he said.

The killings by Hobson of twin sisters Claire and Diane Sanderson, of Camblesforth, near Selby, and pensioners James and Joan Britton, of Strensall, near York, sparked a huge manhunt which resulted after a week in the arrest of Hobson, who went on to be jailed for life - with a judge insisting life should mean life in his case.

Mike Laycock, chief reporter at The Press, has been interviewed for the programme about media coverage of the Hobson case.

The spokesman said both the families of Hobson’s victims had been informed through Family Liaison Officers from North Yorkshire Police that the film was being produced.

•The documentary will be screened at 9pm on Thursday, December 9, on Sky Channel 553 and Virgin Channel 237.