A chef was this afternoon facing life in jail after being found guilty of killing a businesswoman with chemicals after finding her in bed with his brother-in-law at a Wolverhampton restaurant.

Jurors took just 90 minutes to convict Andy Mao of the manslaughter of Jenny Lam. Mao poured more than two litres of white spirit over Miss Lam after he found her in bed for with Ian Vuong for a second time.

The liquid caused 75 per cent burns to the body of the 38-year-old divorced mother of two who died in agony five months later.

Mao then went on the run for seven years and today the extraordinary coincidence that led to the 49-year-old’s capture can be revealed for the first time.

Miss Lam’s son Stephen Lam, who was 15 when his mother died, spotted Mao in a London restaurant and recognised the face of the killer from a ‘wanted’ poster he had seen years earlier.

Father-of-one Mao, from Lewisham, admitted wounding Mr Vuong, also 49, and falsely imprisoning him during the fracas at the restaurant.

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