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Accused Richard Davies Jones 'saw wife stab herself' | Accused Richard Davies Jones 'saw wife stab herself' |
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A solicitor accused of stabbing his wife to death has told a court she stabbed him during a row at their home and then turned the knife on herself. | A solicitor accused of stabbing his wife to death has told a court she stabbed him during a row at their home and then turned the knife on herself. |
Former Army officer Richard Davies Jones said his last memory of his wife Laura was of her repeatedly jabbing the knife at her neck at their Surrey home. | Former Army officer Richard Davies Jones said his last memory of his wife Laura was of her repeatedly jabbing the knife at her neck at their Surrey home. |
Guildford Crown Court heard the incident happened as he was preparing to drive his wife to her mother's home. | Guildford Crown Court heard the incident happened as he was preparing to drive his wife to her mother's home. |
Mr Davies Jones, 33, of Woodfield Lane, Lower Ashtead, denies murder. | |
The court has heard the couple, who had three children, had a turbulent marriage. | |
The prosecution has claimed Mr Davies Jones found out his social worker wife was planning to leave him before her death in December last year. | |
Lying in snow | |
Mr Davies Jones told the jury his 31-year-old wife attacked him in their kitchen, leaving the blade in the left side of his neck. | |
He removed the knife, spurting blood, then walked into the lounge to phone her mother, who lived in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. | |
He said Mrs Davies Jones followed and attacked him again. | |
They fell over and he managed to remove the knife from her hand but saw her face was badly cut. | |
"She said it didn't hurt and to prove it, she started jabbing herself in the neck with the knife in her right hand," he told the jury. | |
He made his way out of the house to shout for help, he said. | |
He remembered nothing until police found him lying on top of his wife in a blood-drenched spot in the snow outside their house. | |
Heather Norton, for the Crown, said none of the defendant's blood was found in the lounge. | |
She said Davies Jones phoned 999 and told the operator: "There's been a stabbing. My wife stabbed me, I stabbed her, she's not moving." | |
A video of the murder scene, with Mrs Davies Jones' pixellated body still in situ, was played to the jury. | |
Close to the body was a knife blade and a pool of the defendant's blood was next to his BMW, along with a knife handle. | |
The trial continues. | The trial continues. |
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