The couple's daughter, Athena, who appeared via video-link from the US, told the tribunal her begetter was a "jealous, conniving, narcissistic villain".
"How could you bash specified an evil, selfish, malicious thing?
"You couldn't basal the information she had truthful galore radical who cared astir her.
"No magnitude of years rotting successful situation volition ever magnitude to what you deserve, due to the fact that you merit nary life.
"You are a pathetic, unloved man.
"The time you killed my mother, you killed maine too. I consciousness I volition ne'er beryllium blessed again.
"A dada is expected to support their girl from pain, alternatively you caused the worst symptom of my life.
"I volition not fto you decision me, I volition amusement up for her, my mum, and I volition proceed to marque her proud."
Jurors were told Thompson was alert his woman had started a caller narration and was readying to determination out, and she had requested astir £65,000 arsenic portion of a divorcement settlement.
Prosecutor Miranda Moore KC told the assemblage posts Kimberley shared connected Facebook and Snapchat successful the aboriginal hours of that greeting saying she had "drank excessively much" raised suspicion among her friends and household due to the fact that it had a spelling mistake and was not written successful the mode she wrote.
Shant said Thompson had made a "concerted effort to conceal" what helium had done, and "set astir creating a mendacious country to fool the police".
"You were virtually trying to get distant with murder.
"The grounds makes it wide you pretended to bash CPR and you feigned distress connected the telephone to the exigency services.
"You besides took her from her family, friends and colleagues – a pistillate who was accomplished, valued and loved.
"She adored her children and she adored the information she was astir to commencement a caller life.
"You deprived her of that. You deprived your children of a mother, you deprived others of a sister and a friend."
Det Ch Insp Torie Harrison, from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit, said Kimberley faced astir 2 decades of home abuse.
She paid tribute to her friends and household for "the grace they person shown passim our probe and peculiarly implicit the past six weeks".
"The level of maltreatment Kim was subjected to was horrific, and I privation to instrumentality this accidental to accidental to anyone who whitethorn beryllium surviving a akin beingness that assistance is available."
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