Carlos Monzon: The Argentine world middleweight boxing champion from 1970 to 1977 was considered one of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the history of the sport, but he was jailed for 11 years in 1989 for the murder of his third wife, who he threw out of a window during a violent row. Freed on parole, he died in a road accident in 1995.

Marc Cecillon: Former French rugby captain, known as "The Quiet Man" who played both No 8 and flanker, was jailed for 20 years in 2008 for shooting his wife dead while drunk at a family gathering in 2004. The sentence was reduced to 14 years on appeal and Cecillon was paroled in 2011.

Jovan Belcher: Linebacker for American football team Kansas City Chiefs who shot dead his girlfriend and mother of his three-month-old child, 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins, in December 2012 before shooting himself in the head at the club training ground.