A jury will return to Worcester Crown Court on Tuesday to continue deliberations in the trial of an undertaker accused of murdering his wife.

John Taylor, aged 61, of Mortimer Drive, Oreleton, near Tenbury Wells, has denied killing his 63-year-old Alethea Taylor, a former Black Country teacher. Her body has never been found after she was reported missing from home in January last year.

The prosecution alleges that Taylor was planning to leave her after 16 years of marriage to set up home with 53-year-old widow Alison Dearden. But he maintained that his wife was suffering from dementia and wandered from home.