A man has denied being “frantic with jealousy and a desire to control” in the hours before he strangled his wife to death with a laptop computer cable.

Khurram Bhatti, 32, denies murdering Fozia Ahmed at their home in Manor Drive, Cottingley , Bingley , on February 29 after learning that she was having an affair.

Bhatti, an IT worker, admits the manslaughter of Mrs Ahmed, 26, the mother of their two young children.

Cross-examined at Bradford Crown Court yesterday by prosecutor Michelle Colborne QC, Bhatti denied being frantic with jealousy over his wife’s affair with student Mohammed Zubair Farooq.

Bhatti denied Miss Colborne’s assertion that he wanted Fozia to be “a traditional Pakistani wife” and sought to influence how she dressed.

She suggested that by February last year, he knew his marriage had fallen apart and was over.

Bhatti said his wife, who had been a devoted mother, was going out at night and neglecting their children.

He said he “genuinely tried all the time” to mend matters between them.

Bhatti earlier told the jury his head was “boiling” in the moments before he attacked his wife when she threatened to kill their children to stop him seeing them again.

His defence is that he suffered a loss of self-control when he stabbed and strangled Mrs Ahmed.

The trial continues.