A woman has died. A few days after her body was found, her husband went to a public house and became very drunk. He admitted to a friend that he had killed his wife because he was jealous of her relationship with another man. This conversation was overheard by the landlord of the public house. The man’s friend and the landlord gave statements to the police detailing the man’s admission. The man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and interviewed under caution, during which he denied killing his wife and denied making the admission to his friend.Is the man’s admission to his friend in the public house admissible at his trial as an exception to the rule against hearsay?