CONVICTED Kidderminster wife murderer Alan Evans is challenging his conviction at the Court of Appeal.

His application is set to be heard by three judges at the Court of Appeal in London on December 16.

Evans was 35 when he was convicted by a jury at Worcester Crown Court in November 2013. He was jailed for life, to serve a minimum of 17 years, with the judge describing the murder of wife, Louise, as 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, who worked in Droitwich, assaulted her, pushing or throwing her down the stairs.

But Evans claimed 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 and immediately ran to a neighbour, who was a nurse, to seek medical assistance.

The nurse saw no vital signs of life and Louise was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.

In sentencing Evans, the judge said: β€œOn all the evidence, I am sure that you killed her with the intention of killing her at the foot of the stairs by asphyxiating her.

"You did not go to her aid, you did not summon help.”

During the trial, the jury was told Evans conducted a secret four-month affair with family friend and teaching assistant, Amanda Chadwick.

After the verdict, in an interview with the Shuttle, his mother Sue said his only crime was having the affair, adding there had been a total miscarriage of justice as there was no solid proof.

A Facebook group, I'm Backing Al, has been set up by campaigners who maintain Evans is innocent.

On the Facebook site Evans parents, Keith and Sue, have posted: "To all the amazing people who have given so much help and support to our son Al in his fight for justice.

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"We have today heard that his case is to be heard by three judges at the court of appeal in London.

"Like yourselves we have always known Al is totally Not Guilty. Now we will prove it."