CONVICTED Kidderminster wife murderer Alan Evans has been denied the right to appeal against his conviction for the third time at a Court of Appeal hearing.

Evans was 35 when he was jailed for life for murdering his wife, Louise, in a callous and deliberate killing.

Louise was found dead at the bottom of the stairs of their Kidderminster home on July 10 that year.

The prosecution said Evans assaulted her, pushing or throwing her down the stairs.

But Evans claimed and maintains to have come across the body of his wife at the bottom of the stairs when he was due to go to bed that night.

When he was told he would not have the right to appeal his conviction at the latest Court of Appeal hearing in London on Wednesday, December 16, after two previous other unsuccessful attempts, his family posted a message on the Facebook group 'I'm backing Al' describing their disappointment.

It said: "We are truly and utterly heartbroken. We always knew that today was going to be an extremely hard battle but never thought for one minute it would be this hard. We may have lost this battle but believe me the war is no means lost yet."