WIFE 'LIED' IN 999 CALL THAT HUSBAND KILLED HIMSELF, COURT TOLD

A WOMAN “overpowered” her husband and attacked him, and then waited 20 minutes to call 999, telling the operator he had taken his own life, a court has heard.

- STEPHANIE WAREHAM News Reporter

Amy Pugh, 34, played the part of a “concerned” wife who had discovered her husband, Kyle Pugh, outside the back of the family home in Newport, Shropshire, when she made her “desperate” 999 call on the evening of March 22 2022.

But she had actually inflicted the wounds on him herself, prosecutors allege.

Mr Pugh, 30, had suffered compression to the neck and fractures to the structure of the neck, as well as a fractured nose and eye socket.

Paramedics were able to restore his pulse but he died in hospital the next day, a murder trial at Stafford Crown Court was told on Thursday.

Amy Pugh, who was separated from her husband at the time of the alleged attack, was charged with his murder in November last year.

Prosecutor Julian Evans KC told the jury that the couple had a “volatile, turbulent and abusive” relationship which would involve physical violence to each other and was often fuelled by drink or drugs.

In his opening speech, he said Mr Pugh had been in a new relationship with another woman at the time of the incident, but was at the family home in Aston Drive, Newport, to visit his children.