EIGHT years ago, millionaire car dealer Ian Workman was jailed for the murder of his wife, Sue.

After a bitter and acrimonious split, they had an argument and she was stabbed through the heart.

Workman used his vast wealth to try to get himself off the hook. He funded his own defence to the tune of £145,000 . . . which he still hasn’t paid.

When that failed, he launched another futile appeal in 2014, pointing to fresh evidence from biomechanics experts, which he said supported his version of events, that it wasn’t his fault his wife had been fatally stabbed. The Court of Appeal kicked out his challenge, saying the experts’ views “added nothing of substance” to evidence heard by the trial jury.

Then Workman tried to sue his lawyers, claiming they had been negligent by not finding a bio-mechanical expert in the first place. That too has failed. Now he owes even more money.

Workman is discovering that money can’t solve all his difficulties. He might have a smart house in Chapeltown. He might have millions in the bank.

But he can’t enjoy them because he’s stuck in jail.

He’s stuck in jail because his nasty malicious temper got the better of him and he wielded a knife against the woman who had been his wife for 35 years.

What a bitter tale of anger and woe. And a lesson to those who think money is the answer to everything.