A FORMER Bournemouth councillor has been jailed after deliberately running over his wife outside their home in France.

David Turtle, 67, former councillor for the Kinson North ward, was found guilty of murdering his wife, Stephanie, 50, and sentenced to 14 years at The Cahors Criminal Court.

The court found he intentionally ran over his wife in a Mercedes after an argument about a TV programme in 2017.

According to the BBC, Turtle said his wife's death had been a tragic accident and had followed an evening of arguments at the home in Prayssac, near Cahors, over what to watch on television.

Turtle said he fell asleep on the couch following the initial row, before his wife woke him after midnight and the argument intensified.

He claimed he decided to go for a drive and did not realise that his wife was in front of the car.

Ms Turtle suffered a crushed rib cage and was found beneath the car the following morning.

Officers believed she lay in front of the car to stop her husband leaving.

Turtle served as a Conservative councillor on the Bournemouth Council from May 2015 to July 2016.