Husband who raped and murdered wife before trying to make it look like suicide jailed for 33 years

'Coercive and controlling' Michael Thompson, 56, suffocated his ex, Kimberley Thompson, 43, a civil servant and award-winning basketball coach, in the middle of the night last August.


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