ANDREW Parsons sobbed in the dock at Oxford Crown Court as a jury was played a recording of him allegedly stabbing his wife to death.

Beautician Janee Parsons, 31, died in the home the couple shared in Lucerne Avenue, Bicester, on December 1 last year.

The prosecution claims she was stabbed 17 times by her husband, who had been told by his wife that she was seeing someone else and wanted a divorce.

Miranda Moore, prosecuting, said the 38-year-old father-of-two taped a voice recorder under Mrs Parson's bed after they started sleeping separately.

Today during the first four parts of the recording, which lasted around an hour, the couple were heard arguing and at around 9.45am Mrs Parsons allegedly told her husband: "I don't want to talk to you right now".

Soon afterwards she could be heard screaming and said: "Are you going to kill me?
"Please, please, please don't kill me Andrew."

Some members of the public left the court as Mrs Parsons was heard begging for the attack to stop.

At one point she said: "Dear god forgive me for my sins."

The trial continues.