Murder accused ‘beat and humiliated husband’
Sharon Edwards 42, claimed she was a “loving wife” and denied murdering her solicitor husband David using a kitchen knife, two months to the day after their Las Vegas wedding.
Mr Edwards, 51, was found dead in bed at their home in Chorley, Lancashire, on August 23 last year, having sustained an 8cm deep wound to the chest.
A further 60 recent external injuries were noted to his body yet Edwards — who was said to have regularly assaulted him — denied they had anything to do with her.
Manchester Crown Court heard that, hours before his death, Edwards was witnessed slapping her husband and calling him a “dickhead” in a pub after allegedly stabbing him upon their arrival home from Spain. But the mother-of-four claims she could not remember the events of the night before her husband’s death, claiming he had put Diazepam in her wine.
The court heard that a police officer on patrol was to describe Edwards as, “ragging him about around the neck threatening to f***ing kill him” before she escorted them home.
The court heard she had called him a “has-been” in front of strangers, belittled and embarrassed him in front of colleagues and called him at work screeching, “what sort of f***ing man are you?”
The jury was told that in his latter months, colleagues and friends saw a decline in Mr Edwards, who had lost weight and was displaying visible facial scratches and bruises. Edwards told the court: “I was a loving wife and I was protective of him.” Prosecutor, Anne Whyte QC, in cross examination, said: “Your husband dies in your bed from a fatal stab wound to his heart that has happened accidentally?”
Edwards replied: “Yes.”
Miss Whyte added: “It is a wound caused by a knife that has gone 8cm into his chest and you hadn’t realised that had happened?”
The defendant said: “I hadn’t realised.”
The case continues.
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