PAUL Grabham claimed on Tuesday he had never been to the area beside the M4 where his wife's body was found in a suitcase.

Continuing evidence he began on Monday, he also told the court that following his wife's disappearance it crossed his mind she had gone off with another man.

As a result, he decided he would go off with other women — and during the next few days had sex with two women he knew.

When asked about bloodstaining at the flat, Grabham denied buying bleach and toilet rolls to clean the place up.

He did not know how blood had got onto a mop, he said, and he never noticed blood on the walls or sofa. Nor was it true he had painted the ceiling following his wife's disappearance.

Grabham said it was possible that, sometime after March 28, his wife had returned to the flat when he was not present — and someone had murdered her there and removed the body.

In cross-examination, Greg Taylor QC said to Grabham: "In the early hours of March 28 you squeezed your wife so hard you fractured part of her larynx."

Grabham: "No."

QC: "You killed your wife, didn't you?"

Grabham: "No I did not."