A convicted murderer serving life in prison told his wife she was 'the weakest link – goodbye' before killing her for sleeping with another man.

Richard Cooper, 60, was jailed in 2002 for the 'wicked' crime which a court at the time heard he committed out of jealousy.

The former-rail guard from Kent flew into a rage with his wife, 46-year-old Teresa Cooper after he recorded her having sex with a postman.

Suspicious of his wife, Cooper taped a voice-activated recorder to the underside of a table in a bid to catch them in the act.

After his wife's meeting, Cooper took the tape and listened to it in a pub where he realised his wife had had sex with the man.

Maidstone Crown Court heard a subsequent 23-minute tape in which Cooper uttered the phrase, made famous by the TV Quiz show in fury at his wife.

At the time of the murder in 2001, the BBC's Weakest Link fronted by Anne Robinson was at the height of its popularity.

After Cooper had referenced the TV show he strangled his wife to death and cut cross masks across her face.

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Teresa had left her husband in 2000 but was still in contact with him when she had a fling with postman Cristopher Sindall which prompted Cooper's murderous rage.

Speaking at Cooper's sentencing, Judge Andrew Patience said: "None of us who sat in this court and heard the contents of that tape will probably ever forget it.

"What you did was wicked almost beyond belief.

"You've been found guilty of the wilful murder of your wife and, if I may say so, it's a verdict with which I entirely agree."

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