Tragic Moment A Husband Is Killed By Wife’s Suspected Lover With A Single Punch (PHOTOS)

This is the moment a row between two love rivals ended in tragedy, as a single punch in a country club car park killed a married father of two.

Train conductor Alexander Frew, 44, was caught on CCTV felling Matthew Welford, moments after being warned to stay away from the victim’s wife.

Yesterday he was jailed for three and a half years for manslaughter.

Fight: Alexander Frew and Matthew Welford are caught on CCTV squaring up to each other during an argument at Garforth Country Club in West Yorkshire

Raised fists: Frew claimed that he was worried Mr Welford was about to head butt him

 

Swing: The attacker suddenly swung back and hit Mr Welford, who accused him of sleeping with his wife

 

Contact: Mr Welford immediately started to fall backwards after he was hit by Frew

Warning: Police said the case should remind people not to succumb to a moment of rage

 

Punch: Mr Welford fell straight backwards after he was hit by his love rival during the incident on June 4

 

Fatal: Mr Welford smacked his head on the ground, causing brain injuries which killed him eight days later

 

 Mr Welford, 41, suspected Frew was  having an affair with his wife Sarah and told him to ‘stay out of my marriage’ when all three of them ended up at Garforth Country Club in West Yorkshire at the same time, a court heard.

Mr Welford was playing pool and told his rival ‘to keep away from his wife and stop looking at her’ and to look elsewhere for sex.

Mrs Welford left the venue and later in the evening the two men came face to face in the car park when Frew suggested they ‘sort this outside’. He waited outside for his married rival to appear and, during the ensuing confrontation, Mr Welford made a derogatory remark about Frew’s own failed marriage.

The shocking footage of the incident – which was played to the jury – appears to show Mr Welford laughing at the other man before he is felled with a single blow, losing consciousness as he hits his head on the ground.

Jailed: Frew, top, has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for killing Mr Welford, bottom

He came round, but his condition deteriorated and he died in hospital eight days later from a ‘massive brain injury’.

Frew, of Garforth, claimed he struck out because he feared he was about to be butted. He told the jury he was scared and believed Mr Welford had ‘lost it’.

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