40-year-old British wife who strangled her spouse, buried her body in a suitcase, killed and walked free

A British man who strangled his wife and buried her body in a suitcase in a shallow grave after she discovered she was having an affair with a teenage babysitter has been released after eight years in prison after serving a 67-year sentence.

After having an affair with his 17-year-old babysitter, Alexander Clack, 40, beat and strangled Nixian Downes Clack when she threatened to leave him.

former prison officer London In June 2014, he murdered his wife on her fourth wedding anniversary.

He buried her body five days later in a small suitcase found in a shallow grave outside St. George’s, the capital of the Caribbean island of Grenada.

Clack was sentenced to 67 years and six months in prison in February 2016, after his lawyers claimed he was unable to appeal because he lost the court computer that recorded the transcript of the murder trial. he was released.

Kim Szmyglewska, 45, Nixiann’s aunt, said: Sun: “I’m appalled. How could they release someone with such flimsy professionalism when he’s guilty of such evil and clearly a danger to women.

“Now he has gotten away with murder and is on his way.”

A former friend of Clack added: Even before the murder, he was involved in domestic violence, including calling the police.

Sixteen-year-old Mrs. Downs-Clack enrolled at Southwark College in Lewisham, South East London, where she studied travel and tourism, and when she turned 20, she met prison officer Clack, 24, on the social networking site MySpace.

Mrs Downes-Clack came to stay regularly at Clack’s apartment in Croydon, south London, and soon moved in with him.

After moving from Kent to Grenada in 2009, the ex Pat seemed to be living the perfect life.

The couple married on June 17, 2009, moved to the upmarket Reims aux Epines in the south, and together they ran a successful recruitment agency.

She became pregnant in March of 2011, and when little Anna (not her real name) was born in December of that year, she said Clack was a loving father.

When her daughter turned one, she hired a 17-year-old nursery teacher so Mrs. Downes-Clack could go back to work.

But soon after, she discovered that Clack had seduced a teenager and had sex in the couple’s bed, his murder trial heard.

Mrs. Downes-Clack’s body was found five days after she went missing, and Clack was arrested and charged with innocent murder.

He went into a rage after collecting her from work when she threatened to leave him.

Upon returning home, he beat her with black and blue before strangling her in front of her two-year-old daughter.

He then stuffed her corpse into a suitcase and drove it up a hill overlooking St. George’s, Grenada’s picturesque capital.

So he buried the case in a 3-foot-deep trench.

Clack’s attorney, Anselm Clauden, said, “Mr Clack was overjoyed, but a typically reserved Englishman. He may have celebrated with a glass of port.

“I understand that the British High Commission has assisted in making arrangements for his return.”