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Wife of crossbow murderer jailed for driving him away from scene | Wife of crossbow murderer jailed for driving him away from scene |
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A woman who helped her husband evade arrest after a Wrexham man was murdered with a crossbow has been jailed. | |
Gwen Munkley, 55, was given a two-year eight-month sentence for perverting the course of justice and helping her husband supply drugs. | |
Anthony Munkley, 53, and Lee Roberts, 33, were jailed for life in June for murdering Sion Davies. | |
The 25-year-old died after falling from a balcony at Munkley's Caia Park estate flat last October. | |
Mold Crown Court heard that Munkley called his wife after fleeing the scene. | |
She was at a supermarket and abandoned her shopping trolley to drive him to a relative's house in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. | |
He was arrested the following day. | |
The judge, Mr Justice Wyn Williams, told her: "Essentially what you did is that knowing your husband had been involved in the killing of the victim in this case, you quite deliberately drove him away from the scene, a distance of some miles, in the hope that he would evade detection." | |
He said she became aware of what had happened when Munkley and Roberts spoke on the phone but continued with the journey. | |
The court heard she had been helping her husband in his drug dealing trade for about ten months. | |
"What you did essentially was to allow your bank account to be used for money laundering," Mr Justice Wyn Williams explained. | |
She was given concurrent sentences of two years and eight months. |
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