AN inquest into the murder of a mother-of-two at the hands of her convicted killer ex-boyfriend is set to begin at Chelmsford Coroner's Court today (September 15).
The hearing is expected to last up to six weeks.
Maria Stubbings, 50 was strangled to death by Marc Chivers in her Pitfield home in December 2008.
He had already served a life sentence in Germany for throttling his prostitute girlfriend, for whom he acted as a pimp, and a four-month jail term for assaulting Maria.
Then just months after his release in December 2008, Chivers, then 43, strangled the mother-of-two with a pink dog lead and buried her body under a pile of coats in a downstairs toilet.
The 51-year-old's daughter, Celia Peachey, son Bengi Stubbing and brother Manuel Fernandez, have long campaigned for a public inquiry into domestic violence.
