A couple stabbed to death by the woman’s headmaster ex had seemed “deeply in love”, a friend has said. PE teacher Helen Hancock and her boyfriend Martin Griffiths were knifed in bed in the early hours of New Year’s Day in the home she previously shared with husband Rhys Hancock.
The killer, 40, now faces life behind bars after admitting both murders. The dad of three had plotted the killings over Christmas after discovering his ex was seeing the marketing firm boss, who she had met at a running club.
Helen, 39, rang police on Boxing Day last year after Hancock made threats, and later fled to North Wales with Mr Griffiths, 48.
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