A WIFE suffering from "fear and distress" has admitted she knifed her husband to death during a drunken row.

Doris Keningale, 43, was charged with the murder of her husband Vincent, 61, at their home in Snowdon Close, Ty Sign, Risca, on September 13 last year.

At Cardiff crown court the civil servant pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Keningale.

The couple met in 1990 when the defendant, a Cliff Richard fan, was visiting Wales from her native Germany to see the star perform at Savvas club in Usk.

Mr Keningale was working as a minder and a doorman at the club.

John Jenkins QC, prosecuting, told the court Mr Keningale had died from a "single blow".

He said: "The defendant told the police she was suffering from fear and distress."

The killing happened while she was making sandwiches when the couple had been drinking and rowing.

What followed after he was knifed, Mr Jenkins said, was a "harrowing and anguished 999 call".

When she was found, Keningale was "hysterical and sobbing".

The court heard she had been "suffering from anxiety-related symptoms and traumatic stress".

Mr Jenkins said the prosecution accepted her guilty to manslaughter plea after it was decided there was "no great public interest in putting this lady on trial for murder".

Peter Murphy QC, mitigating, asked for a pre-sentence report to be prepared.

The court will also consider psychiatric reports.

Judge John Griffith Williams QC adjourned sentence until next month and Keningale was granted conditional bail.

He told her: "You must understand that by allowing you bail I am not indicating I will not have to consider a custodial sentence."