A WIFE who claimed she was doing a sexy dance to a Shania Twain song when she blasted her husband to death was yesterday jailed for life.

Linda West told a court she was trying to arouse her new husband by gyrating with a gun to Man! I Feel Like A Woman! when it "just went off".

Gregory West, 45, was killed instantly by a single shot to his chest in his Southampton home.

A Winchester Crown Court jury took eight and a half hours to reject 49-year-old West's account and convict her of murder.

The case was a retrial after the original jury had failed to reach a verdict.

Judge Guy Boney QC sentenced her to life, with a minimum of 16 years in jail.

He said: "The great tragedy of this case is that in a state of drunken madness you took the life of the man you loved and in doing so you utterly ruined your own."