Margaret Kibuuka predicted her husband George would kill her

Margaret Kibuuka had gone to police reporting historic domestic abuse because she was “scared of what might happen” as she tried to divorce husband George Kibuuka for being unfaithful.

She even told them of a conversation between her and her husband of 22 years, after she claims he hit her, in which she warned him: “Next time you do this to me one of us is going to go to jail. I will got to jail for killing you or you will go to jail for killing me.”

Three months later, the mum-of-four was allegedly murdered by Kibuuka who rained two blows down on her head as she slept alongside their young daughter, and then cut her throat with a kitchen knife.

The hour-long interview with police was recorded on video 73 days before she died and was yesterday chillingly played out to jurors on large television screens on the second day of the murder trial at Winchester Crown Court.

Margaret, 40, had walked into Shirley Police Station in Southampton on August 24 last year where she claimed she had been “badly beaten” in the past by her husband and said she was worried about his “irrational behaviour”.

Days later she was taken to a specialist video suite where she told a detective: “Anything could happen at any time, he’s unpredictable. One of these days something is going to happen.”

The court heard Margaret describe how she and Kibuuka, now 48, had an argument back in 2002 as she tried to get their eldest son ready for school.

The row was about her past and relationships with other men and happened while her sister was staying with them.

Margaret, who was at the time attending university, said: “He was very much interested in the grotty details and everything that happened.

“He got really angry because I wasn’t happy to talk about it. In the end I told him everything and that really got him upset.

“He said to me ‘you’re not going to university’ and I said ‘there’s no way you’re going to stop me’.”

Margaret went on to claim that Kibuuka grabbed her around the neck as she struggled with him and told him to let go saying “George, you’re strangling me”.

She told the officer how she hit him with a toy before he punched her four times and she fell down the stairs.

She said: “I blacked out. All I remember was coming round and my sister was crying and saying to call an ambulance. “She was saying ‘She’s going to die George’ but he said ‘No, just leave her there, she will be OK’.”

Jurors watched as Margaret described how she tried to get out of their home in Richville Road, Shirley, running into the garden where she contemplated jumping over the wall, before she eventually went back inside thinking that she couldn’t leave her two children.

Margaret told how she was made to stay inside for a week so nobody saw her injuries, including a swollen face and eye.

Jurors heard her tell police how she felt isolated and could not have friends or relatives visit the house.

She said: “He kept on apologising. I could hear what he was saying but I just wanted to get out of the house. I remember saying ‘next time you do this to me one of us is going to go to jail. I said to George ‘I will kill you because I know you will kill me’.”

Margaret continued: “I remember saying to him ‘I’m not scared of you George, I will never be scared of you’.

Asked about the situation at that point in August 2009, Margaret said she had been driven to divorce because of affairs her husband had with two of her sisters.

Affairs She told the officer: “I just can’t take it any longer, I said to George we can’t go on like this, with the affairs”, adding that their relationship had broken down and there was “no trust or communication”.

“I wanted more from the relationship, I wanted someone to be there for the children, to help me out with the kids now and again – they are my main priority.”

Margaret described how the divorce was “dragging on” because Kibuuka, who earned £90,000 a year as an IT consultant for a pharmaceutical company, didn’t want “his assets to be split up”.

She told the officer: “He’s a completely different person from what you see. He loses his temper quite easily, he just can’t tolerate people.

“He has said to people ‘I’m going to do what I have to, to make sure Margaret doesn’t get anything out of the divorce’. I was trying to be brave but people kept saying ‘Margaret you have to do something’.”

Margaret went on to tell police she didn’t want Kibuuka to be prosecuted for the alleged domestic violence she had just reported because he would get “very angry”.

Kibuuka denies charges of murdering Margaret and drugging three of their children to enable him to carry out the killing.

Proceeding.