A woman who overpowered her husband and attacked him before telling a 999 operator he had taken his own life has been found guilty of his murder.
Amy Pugh, 34, told a jury at Stafford Crown Court that she had found her husband hanging when she opened the back door of her family home in Newport, Shropshire, on the evening of March 22, 2022.
Kyle Pugh, 30, had suffered compression to the neck and fractures to the structure of the neck, as well as a fractured nose and eye socket and died at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford surrounded by his family on March 23, 2022.
Pugh, who wore a white top and black suit, put her hands to her mouth in the dock after the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder on Thursday after more than 11 hours of deliberations.
The court heard Pugh had called her father before dialling 999 20 minutes after 'gaining the upper hand' over her husband, from whom she was separated, in a fight in the kitchen and attacking him.
