A jealous lover who murdered his girlfriend over her affair with a man she met on a dating site for Oxbridge graduates was jailed for life today. Jonathan Tebbs, 46, stabbed dedicated town hall chief Kate Dixon 29 times with a Swiss Army knife before reading an Oscar Wilde poem about a man who kills his wife. He stripped her clothes off and calmly carried her into the shower where he washed the blood from her lifeless body at a flat in Streatham, south London. The killer attempted to scrub the murder scene clean and then searched on the internet for Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which includes the verse: 'Yet each man kills the thing he loves … The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with the sword.'
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Jonathan Tebbs had 'possessive' 12-year relationship with Kate Dixon
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She found a new lover on an Oxbridge dating website last year
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After she told Tebbs about the relationship he stabbed her 29 times
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Tebbs, 46, was convicted of murder and handed a life sentence
The killer, wearing a black three-piece suit, lavender shirt and blue tie, bowed his head as the verdict was announced while cries of 'yes' came from the public gallery packed with @placeholder's close friends and family.
A statement prepared on behalf of the grieving family said: 'Kate's shocking death has deprived @placeholder of a life she enjoyed and richly deserved.