A WOMAN accused of soliciting a man to murder her husband asked him to make a provision for her son in his will just in case he "died suddenly", a court heard yesterday.

The request came after Anthea Jane Jones, who is known as Jane, left her husband Francis last year.

Jones, 37, of Hafod Cottage, Black Rock, Clydach, is accused of soliciting lover Lenny Loveridge, from Hereford, to murder her husband. She denies the charge.

Mr Jones, 60, gave evidence at Cardiff crown court yesterday. He told the court he was worth more than £2 million and said: "She phoned me on one occasion to ask me if I had made a will. I replied that I had made a will but she was not in it.

"She asked me to add a codicil which if I was to die suddenly would make a provision so her son would receive a lump sum from the estate equivalent to the amount paid to him every month. She asked me to do it on the same day."

Mr Jones described how he only discovered his wife had more than one lover when she contracted sexually transmitted disease chlamydia from "Dan the builder" and passed it on to her husband.

"She had a smear test at a local hospital and heard she got chlamydia so she had to tell me as I had it as well," Mr Jones said.

He said he fell in love with Jones while she was working as a pub chef and later asked her to move in with him. He said it was domestic bliss at first, but he was unaware until later that his son Magnus had a sexual encounter with his wife on their wedding day in February 1998.

The 60-year-old, who owns Jones Pharmacy in Llanhilleth near Abertillery, said he first knew of a lover when he heard former soldier Bob Routledge was visiting her in hospital after she was involved in a horse riding accident.

"I felt this was totally inappropriate," he said. Following the accident and the death of Magnus, Mr Jones described how there was a strain on their relationship.

She left the marital home at the end of 2002. Six months later, she went back.

The defendant then revealed she had been having an affair with the soldier, the court heard.

"She came to see me at the pharmacy and told me she was having an affair with Bob," said Mr Jones.

"She claimed she threw him out because he had another girlfriend."

Jones finally left her husband in June last year. He described the humiliation he felt as she arrived at the house with her new lover.

Mr Jones said: "When I arrived at the house one of the fridges had gone, one of the freezers and one of the wardrobes. It looked like it had been planned like a military operation.

"She turned up at the house with another partner, I believe his name was Keith Melloy. She told me he was her new partner, I said no, I was her partner.

"I asked Melloy to leave because he was humiliating me."

Jones told her husband Melloy was her soulmate because they shared an interest in witchcraft. She said it was not sexual.

The court heard Mr Jones adopted his wife's son in February last year but was no longer making payments to him.

Mr Jones said his wife was familiar with his route home from work and that he left the pharmacy with a briefcase full of cash on Friday nights.

The prosecution allege the defendant propositioned lovers to either run her husband off the road or fake a robbery outside his shop. Proceeding