Barclays executive battered wife to death with crowbar after 'years of abuse'
Andy JehringA BANKING exec “snapped” and bludgeoned his wife to death with a crowbar after suffering years of her abuse, a court heard.
He told jurors: “What happened was this is a case where a quiet man finally snapped and unhappily he was a quiet man with a tool in his hand.Mr Pratt told the jury of seven women and five men the defendant had been the model of restraint despite facing long standing “vocal and sometimes violent” abuse from his wife.Mr Pratt said the jury will hear from the couple’s daughter, Megan, 18, who describes her father as “her rock” while her mother would call her a “fat slag”.
The family lived in Warrington but also owned land with some stables nearby on Old Alder Lane, where they kept a number of horses. Pathologist Dr Alison Armour found Mrs Pomphret died from severe head injuries caused by multiple blows to her head.The extent of the injury made it difficult for the doctor to accurately assess the number of individual blows that were struck to Mrs Pomphret’s head.
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