The husband of Natalia Karaczyn has been convicted of his wife's murder in Sligo in April 2018.
A jury returned the majority guilty murder verdict in the Central Criminal Court in Dublin this afternoon.
35-year-old Rafal Karaczyn, of Crozon Park, in Sligo, had pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to the manslaughter of Natalia Karaczyn, 30, at their family home in Crozon Park between April 29, 2018, and May 1, 2018
This afternoon he was found guilty of murdering Natalia by strangling her to death.
The jury of seven women and four men took two days to reject Karaczyn's claim that he was provoked into murdering his wife after she slapped him and refused to tell him where she had been.
The decision was not unanimous but was agreed by ten of the eleven jurors.
The jury heard that Natalia wanted to split from her husband and that when she arrived home in the early hours of a Sunday morning, he came into her bedroom and demanded to know where she had been.
He told gardaí that she pushed him out of the room and, when he returned again and demanded to know where she had been, she slapped him.
Karaczyn said he really didn't know what happened.
He said he started to strangle her and after a while she "started to slide down."
Karaczyn claimed in his defence that Natalia had provoked him to such an extent that he lost all self-control.
He argued he should therefore be found guilty of manslaughter and not murder.
However, by a majority verdict, the jury rejected this, convicting him of his wife's murder this afternoon.
