Collymore 'threatened to kill wife'

Former England footballer Stan Collymore has been charged with threatening to kill his estranged wife.

The 33-year-old is due to face four charges next week after an alleged incident at the home of his parents- in- law. It is claimed the former Liverpool, Aston Villa and Nottingham-Forest striker turned up at the house in Heath Hayes, Staffordshire, and attacked his wife Estelle's £15,000 Mini Cooper S. The front passenger side window is

s a id to have been smashed.

Collymore is then said to have threatened to kill her before saying he would burn down the home of her parents, Alan and Hildegard Williams.

Mrs Collymore, 26, and the couple's three-year-old daughter Mia have been staying with her parents since she moved out of her £1million house in nearby Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, after the footballer's sex confessions two months ago. He was exposed for having sex with strangers in public. "I can only beg for forgiveness," he said at the time.

Collymore is now due to appear before Mid-Staffordshire magistrates on Monday accused of behaving abusively, causing criminal damage, making a threat to kill and issuing a threat to cause criminal damage.

A spokesman for Staffordshire Police said: "A 33-year-old man from the Cannock area was arrested at his home on Monday. A file has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service. In the meantime the man is on police bail."