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Annemasse, France (Tribune de Geneve, Fre) – A 42-year-old man on trial in Annemasse, France, over the border from Geneva, told a court Monday that it took only seconds for a domestic argument to turn to violence in June 2007 when he murdered his wife, then put her body in a sleeping bag and tried to hide it in a swamp.

He put his fist to his wife, after she taunted him and said she was leaving him and their children, he told the court. Then once she was down he beat her senseless. She had been working as a prostitute in the Paquis area of Geneva since shortly after their marriage, a fact he says she never hid from him, but the evening of her murder she’d told him she was leaving. The couple had two children, ages three and six at the time of the murder.