A British businessman could face 30 years behind bars after being accused murdering his wife at their holiday home in France.
Romanian-born Madalina Sneddon was found lying dead at the bottom of stairs in the apartment in the tourist city of Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on June 13.
Her husband Craig, who is also known as Jack, made a hysterical 999 call to emergency operators claiming to have found his wife lying on the stairs.
But suspicious police officers did not believe his account and detained him in custody until the post-mortem was carried out.
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