A controlling husband who killed his wife by drowning her in their garden hot tub has been jailed for life.

Andrew Georgiou, 45, attacked his wife Carol in the early hours of 2 November 2024, after they returned home from a night out.

At the time, the Milton Keynes couple were going through a divorce and were trying to agree how to split the proceeds from the proposed sale of the family home. Georgiou was unwilling to provide the financial settlement that Carol was entitled to.

Carol got into the hot tub in the back garden around 2am. In a partial conversation captured by CCTV in a neighbouring property, she was heard telling Georgiou, “I’m done.”

Around 13 minutes after she had repeated “we’re done,” Georgiou pushed Carol under the water. She screamed and struggled to escape, but he held her down until she died.

Georgiou did not call the emergency services for a further forty minutes. During that time, CCTV showed him moving furtively around the house.

He later lied to the paramedics, Carol’s family and the police, claiming he had found her already dead in the hot tub and had no idea how she had died.

CCTV evidence contradicted Georgiou’s account of his movements that night.

Further evidence revealed that, in the months leading up to her death, Georgiou had been spying on his wife. He read her diary, installed hidden cameras in their home, put a tracking device on her car and followed her.

After her murder he tried to cover his tracks, removing the hidden cameras and the tracker.

He disposed of one of the cameras and removed the covert cameras from the app on his phone, hoping police would never discover they had been installed.

Lawyer Shan Saunders from the Crown Prosecution Service said: “Andrew Georgiou had 13 minutes to contemplate his wife’s words “we’re done,” during which time he made the devastating decision to end her life.

“After murdering her, he set out to mislead everyone who asked about the circumstances of her death. He immediately began covering his tracks, including checking CCTV footage from his home while travelling with Carol in the ambulance to hospital.

“Working with the police, we analysed CCTV evidence to establish Georgiou’s movements on the night to prove that his version of events – that Carol’s death had been a tragic accident – was a lie.

“Faced with overwhelming evidence, Georgiou eventually pleaded guilty to Carol’s murder and will now serve a significant sentence behind bars.

“Our thoughts remain with Carol’s family and friends, who have shown incredible strength throughout this case.”