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| Husband murdered wife's RAF lover | Husband murdered wife's RAF lover |
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| A jilted husband has been jailed for life for murder after following his wife to England to kill her RAF lover. | A jilted husband has been jailed for life for murder after following his wife to England to kill her RAF lover. |
| Francesco Matta, 56, from Sardinia, stabbed Flt Lt Stephen Keen, 54, four times in the neck in July 2006. He will serve at least 13 years and six months. | Francesco Matta, 56, from Sardinia, stabbed Flt Lt Stephen Keen, 54, four times in the neck in July 2006. He will serve at least 13 years and six months. |
| Matta had travelled to Tiverton in Devon where his wife had moved in with Mr Keen, Exeter Crown Court heard. | Matta had travelled to Tiverton in Devon where his wife had moved in with Mr Keen, Exeter Crown Court heard. |
| Susan Matta had left her husband after rekindling a teenage romance with Mr Keen via the Friends Reunited website. | Susan Matta had left her husband after rekindling a teenage romance with Mr Keen via the Friends Reunited website. |
| 'Slaughter chamber' | 'Slaughter chamber' |
| Mr Keen and Mrs Matta had got back together 30 years after their teenage romance ended. | Mr Keen and Mrs Matta had got back together 30 years after their teenage romance ended. |
| Matta travelled to the UK and turned up at the Tiverton home which his wife and Mr Keen had moved into a few days before.Stephen Keen bled to death after being stabbed | |
| He then stabbed Mr Keen four times in the neck and throat in front of Mrs Matta. | He then stabbed Mr Keen four times in the neck and throat in front of Mrs Matta. |
| Mr Keen, who suffered over a dozen defence wounds to his hands, bled to death in the arms of Mrs Matta. | Mr Keen, who suffered over a dozen defence wounds to his hands, bled to death in the arms of Mrs Matta. |
| She told the court the room looked like a "slaughter chamber" after the killing. | She told the court the room looked like a "slaughter chamber" after the killing. |
| Mr Keen had been her first boyfriend when she was a 14-year-old grammar school girl and he was a 17-year-old sixth former but they split up and lost contact two years later. | Mr Keen had been her first boyfriend when she was a 14-year-old grammar school girl and he was a 17-year-old sixth former but they split up and lost contact two years later. |
| Their love blossomed again after they met through Friends Reunited and Susan ditched Matta while Mr Keen left his wife Doreen and their two children after 33 years of marriage. | Their love blossomed again after they met through Friends Reunited and Susan ditched Matta while Mr Keen left his wife Doreen and their two children after 33 years of marriage. |
| The couple agreed to live together without even meeting and they returned to live in Tiverton where they had been at school together in the late 1960s. | |
| Matta lay in wait outside the murder scene in Tiverton | |
| Former Savoy Hotel chef Matta assembled a killing kit during his journey across Europe. | |
| He bought a four-inch knife, pickaxe handle, dark clothes and hat, tape, rope and a can of petrol before lying in wait in a van outside the home where Mr Keen and Mrs Matta had lived together for just eight days. | |
| He went to the door and was invited in but stabbed Mr Keen to death when he was asked to leave. | |
| He had just told Mr Keen: "You are supposed to be an officer and a gentleman but you have broken up two marriages." | |
| As he stabbed Mr Keen he told Susan:"My life is over. Now you will suffer as I am suffering." | |
| Matta, who was working as a postman in Sardinia at the time of the killing in July 2006, denied murder but was convicted after a retrial. |