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| Husband Royston Jones guilty of nurse murder bid | Husband Royston Jones guilty of nurse murder bid |
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| A man has been found guilty of attempting to murder his wife by strangling her as she worked in an intensive care unit. | A man has been found guilty of attempting to murder his wife by strangling her as she worked in an intensive care unit. |
| Bare-chested Royston Jones attacked Claire Jones in front of colleagues at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny. | Bare-chested Royston Jones attacked Claire Jones in front of colleagues at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny. |
| Jones, 39, of Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent, was shouting "kill" and "die" and left his estranged wife unconscious on the floor after the attack. | |
| Newport Crown Court heard "jealous" Jones thought she was having an affair. | |
| Colleagues managed to stop the attack by the drug-fuelled unemployed driver, the trial heard. | |
| Prosecutor Michael Jones told Newport Crown Court: "He was a jealous, possessive and aggressive man who was convinced his estranged wife was in another relationship. | |
| "Were it not for the heroic intervention of staff at that hospital, he would undoubtedly have succeeded." | "Were it not for the heroic intervention of staff at that hospital, he would undoubtedly have succeeded." |
| 'Man possessed' | |
| Ms Jones, 35, told the trial: "He was like a man possessed. Marching towards me, seething and glaring at me. | |
| "All he said to me was, 'you've done it now' and I said, 'what have I done?' | |
| "He put both his hands around my throat and neck and I was aware of colleagues screaming and shouting around me. | |
| "They were shouting, 'get off her, get off her'. | |
| "I lost consciousness and the next thing I remember is being dragged into an office and a colleague telling me, 'you're alright now'. | |
| "My colleagues were looking at me in horror." | |
| Ms Jones was treated at the hospital's A&E unit for a swollen neck and throat and back injuries. | |
| 'She was blue' | |
| Consultant anaesthetist Edward Curtis told the court: "I saw the man charging. Nurses were screaming, 'he's going to kill her'. | |
| "I could see Claire on the ground and he was on top of her with both hands around her neck. | |
| "Her face was turning to blue-grey and she wasn't moving and he was saying words like 'kill' and 'die'. | |
| "I wrestled with him and managed to pull him off but his knee caught me with considerable force and stunned me." | |
| He said Ms Jones would have died if he had not intervened. | |
| The court heard Jones told police after he was arrested: "I'll do two years for this. The court better not let me out or I'll finish the job. I won't be in jail forever." | |
| Jones was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 20 February. |