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Christopher Parry guilty of murdering wife Caroline Parry Christopher Parry guilty of murdering wife Caroline Parry
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A husband who shot his wife dead because he could not accept she had left him has been found guilty of murder. A man murdered his wife by shooting her in the back because he could not accept she had left him.
Caroline Parry was shot in the back at close range on Seabreeze Avenue near her home in Newport last August. Caroline Parry was shot twice at close range by her "controlling and dominant" husband near her home in Newport last August.
She left 49-year-old Christopher Parry after years of unhappiness with the "controlling and dominant" individual. She left 49-year-old Christopher Parry after years of unhappiness, so he shot her before turning the gun on himself.
He admitted manslaughter at Newport Crown Court but denied murder claiming he was only meant to shoot himself. He admitted manslaughter at Newport Crown Court but denied murder claiming he only meant to shoot himself.
A jury delivered a majority verdict of 10-1 after deliberating since Friday. But the court heard the shooting was a "carefully planned scheme" by a man "not prepared to let go".
Parry was not present in the dock for the verdict with the judge's permission. He will be sentenced at a later date. Mrs Parry was gunned down by her estranged husband after leaving the home of her new partner.
During the trial, the court heard Parry waited for his wife to leave her new partner's home on the morning of the shooting, before removing a semi-automatic shotgun from the boot of his car. She had fled her husband of 27 years after meeting another man while walking her dog.
Parry, a driver for the Celtic Manor Resort, shot her and then turned the gun on himself, leaving him with substantial head injuries. Gary Bidmead met her after he saw her crying and asked if she was okay. The pair and struck up a friendship which gradually blossomed into something more. They moved in together six months later, a development her estranged husband could not accept.
Prosecutor Michael Mather-Lees QC told jurors that Parry had been a "controlling" during the couple's 27-year marriage. The jury heard Parry had kept his wife "under surveillance" in the months leading up to the shooting, and phoned her persistently.
He said: "Such was the state of the marriage she left and went to live with her mother, telling her husband she would never go back to him. On the morning he killed her Parry had been waiting for his wife in Seabreeze Avenue, and when he saw her got a semi-automatic shotgun from the boot of his car.
He shot her twice in the back at close range before turning the gun himself in a suicide attempt which failed, but resulted in substantial head injuries.
Parry told a psychiatrist his "intention was to kill himself in front of his wife to make her realise the torment she had put him through", the court heard.
But the reality was that during her marriage she had been controlled by her husband to such an extent that she was only allowed to stay with her mother once a month and she had to be in by 7pm.
Prosecutor Michael Mather-Lees QC said: "Such was the state of the marriage she left and went to live with her mother, telling her husband she would never go back to him.
"But he could not accept the fact that his wife had left him after years of unhappiness.""But he could not accept the fact that his wife had left him after years of unhappiness."
She later went to live with a man called Gary Bidmead who she had met before she left the marital home. Parry, who had a shotgun licence and kept three firearms at his Cwmbran home, was a driver for the Celtic Manor Resort. The court heard he had a history of mental illness and depression dating back over 10 years.
In the months before the shooting Mr Parry, who had a shotgun licence and kept three firearms at his Cwmbran home, kept his wife "under surveillance" and phoned her persistently, the jury was told.
Mr Mather-Lees said the shooting was a "carefully planned scheme" by a man "not prepared to let go".
The court heard Parry had a history of mental illness and depression dating back over 10 years.
Consultant psychiatrist Dr Emma Clark told the trial that Parry informed her he could no longer go on, and on the day of the shooting he wanted to show his wife how much he loved her by killing himself in front of her.
"It's the biggest thing you can do to show them you love them," he told her.
"I didn't plan this, I wish I wasn't ill - if I could turn back..." he added.
Dr Clark told the court she believed Parry was suffering from a severe depressive illness and his actions on the day of the shooting were affected by his state of mind.
But a second consultant psychiatrist, Dr Philip Joseph, who examined Parry before the start of the trial, said there was nothing in GP notes to suggest severe depression.
He told the court that if Parry had decided to kill his wife, his depressive illness would not have been a contributory factor.
"Killing her would have come from anger, vengeance, and a desire to cause her serious harm, depression is not associated with violence," he said.
But if he had not decided to kill her before he got there, Dr Joseph said the depressive illness may have played a part.
After being discharged from hospital two months after the shooting, Parry was sectioned under the Mental Health Act.After being discharged from hospital two months after the shooting, Parry was sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
A jury delivered a majority verdict of 10-1 after deliberating since Friday.
Parry was not present in the dock for the verdict with the judge's permission. He will be sentenced at a later date.