A Queensland man accused of murdering his wife was afraid she would kill him so he pushed her. Source: AAP
SEX and money motivated Klaus Andres to murder his wife, prosecutors have claimed, but the Queensland man says her death was an accident.
The 70-year-old has pleaded guilty to interfering with Li Ping Cao's corpse by dissolving her body in a wheelie bin of acid, but denies intentionally killing her.
He claims his wife twice stabbed him with a fork during an argument at the couple's Cairns home on October 30, 2011, so he pushed her, causing her to fall and die.
Andres says he then dissolved her body in acid because he panicked and thought he would be blamed for her death.
On Tuesday, Principal Crown Prosecutor Nigel Rees summed up his case by telling the court Andres killed his wife so his Thai mistress could move into his house.
He also said Andres wanted to get rid of his wife because a divorce would be costly.
"His motives are sex and money," he said.
Mr Rees directed the jury to an email Andres sent to his mistress overseas in the two months prior to his wife's death in which he said he had a "problem" that he needed to fix quickly.
In one email Andres said: "But I must be careful not to make a fatal mistake to make it more difficult for us."
He said if Ms Cao's death was an accident then Andres wouldn't have dissolved her body in acid.
Mr Rees disputed Andres' claim that he panicked after he accidentally caused his wife's death.
He pointed to the fact Andres admits walking along the Cairns esplanade where he ate an ice cream before returning home on October 31, 2011, and pouring acid on his wife's body.
"These are not actions of a panicked man, but of a calculated man," Mr Rees said.
Mr Rees described Andres as an "unmitigated liar" whose evidence couldn't be trusted because he lied to police and his family, saying Ms Cao had left him.
He said a doctor who examined Andres soon after his wife's death said wounds on his hand were unlikely to have been caused by a fork.
Defence lawyer Tony Glynn told the jury not to focus on whether they thought Andres was a good person, but whether the evidence proved he intended to kill his wife.
He said Andres lied to police and his family because he panicked and feared he would be blamed for her death.
Mr Glynn said there was a "lack of premeditation" as Andres bought the acid after his wife's death and also used her credit card to make the purchase.
"You simply don't do something like that if it was planned," he said.
"The death was an accident as it wasn't foreseeable by any ordinary person."
He said Andres had offered his wife $50,000 to divorce him which proves he didn't kill her to avoid a costly divorce.
Mr Glynn said emails Andres sent to his mistress prove he intended to legally divorce his wife and that he had accepted this would take 12 months.
He said a specialist forensic pathologist who gave evidence couldn't rule out that the wounds on Andres' hand were caused by a fork.
The jury will begin deliberations on Wednesday.
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