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Joanne Kitchen, 41, was making love with Gary Higgs, 44, in their bedroom when
she accidentally blurted out: "Chris, harder."
Higgs was so angry he grabbed a knife from their kitchen and stabbed her twice —
once in the back and once in the chest.
As she lay dying from her wounds, he throttled her to death with the
electrical flex of their alarm clock.
He later confessed to police: "I couldn't get things out of my mind.
Mad
"I asked her why she said 'Chris' but she said she must have been thinking
about her daughter's boyfriend Chris.
"It didn't make any sense to me and I was getting more angry. Why was she
thinking about her daughter's boyfriend when we were having sex?
"I don't remember thinking that I wanted to harm Jo but I was just so mad."
Higgs was today due to be jailed for life after pleading guilty to murder.
Manchester Crown Court was told the couple met in 2009 through playing games
of "social networking poker" on internet site Facebook.
Users play to meet each rather than to win any cash.
Both broke up with long-term partners to move into a rented two bedroomed
terraced house in Bury, Greater Manchester.
Mr Paul Reid QC, prosecuting, said the couple struggled financially with only
Joanne working.
Higgs murdered Joanne on the morning of April 13 this year.
The night before she had been driven home from work by her daughter Rebecca,
20, and Rebecca's boyfriend Christopher James.
At 8.55am a woman waiting at a bus stop heard "a cluster of argumentative
screams" from the couple's home.
She also saw Higgs standing bare chested at the window.
The alarm was raised when Joanne failed to show up for work and Rebecca and
elder sister Belinda, 22, failed to contact their mother by phone or text.
Higgs was later tracked down to the home of his mother in Swindon, Wiltshire.
He told police he and Joanne had been on "good terms" before the murder.
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