A top public school hockey coach accused of murdering his wife told a 999 call handler ‘she’s got a knife in her tummy’, a court heard.
Mohamed Samak, 43, is accused of stabbing 49-year-old interior designer Joanne in front of their young son.
A court heard the hockey international, who represented Egypt and was a member of the England over-40s squad, attacked his wife on July 1 last year.
Prosecutor Matthew Brook KC said the couple slept in separate rooms at their home in Chestnut Spinney, Droitwich, Worcester.
The jury heard that at around 3am, neighbours heard a woman scream and a little boy crying.
Mr Brook read from a transcript of a call made to the emergency services at 4.09am.
The court heard that Samak called 911 which was automatically transferred to a 999 call handler.
Reading from a transcript of the call, Mr Brook said: ‘Do you want the police?
Mohamed Samak is accused of stabbing his interior designer wife Joanne (above, together)
Police and forensics at the couple’s home where Joanne was found dead on July 2 last year
‘To which the defendant replied ‘yes, please, I’m in some trouble’ he mentions his wife.
‘He says ‘please, I need to help my wife’.
‘The operator asks ‘what about your wife?’
‘To which the defendant replied ‘she’s got a knife in her tummy’.’
Mr Brook said that Samak told the operator that he had gone to the toilet, looked inside his wife’s bedroom and seen her slumped, half in, half out of her bed.
Samak had described turning her over and seeing first blood and then the knife before attempting CPR until the police and medics arrived.
Mr Brook said that Samak later changed his story and told police that he had seen his wife stabbing herself in the stomach.
He said he had waited an hour to call police because he was ‘in shock’.
Samak claims his wife Joanne (pictured together) stabbed herself in the stomach after struggling with mental health and alcohol
The court heard that the couple’s young son – who cannot be named – had talked about the night with his grandmother.
Mr Brook told the court: ‘He said (his father) picked mummy up off the bed and she had hit her head on the corner of a cupboard.’
The boy was interviewed by specially trained officers and built a Lego replica of his mother’s bedroom where he had been sleeping that night.
Mr Brook said: ‘He said when he was in mummy’s room, daddy picked mummy up to see what was in her hands.
‘When daddy picked mummy up he had wrapped his arms around her tummy.
‘He had been woken up by mummy shouting ‘put me down’.’
The jury has already heard that Mrs Samak suffered multiple stab wounds but it was a knife wound to the heart that killed her.
‘The defendant says she inflicted these stab wounds on herself.
Police and forensics at the scene in Chestnut Spinney, in Droitwich Spa, on July 2, 2024
‘The prosecution says that we are sure that the defendant stabbed his wife and murdered her.’
Samak was head coach of the Welsh under-18s boys and girls hockey and previously head of boys’ hockey at Malvern College, which costs up to £57,285-a-year to attend.
The couple met in 2011 when Mrs Samak went to Egypt on holiday and he was in charge of sports and activities provision for guests at her hotel.
Samak denies murder.
The trial continues.
