Man denies killing ex-wife after being accused of leaving her body piled up of clothes in sealed room. Russell Marsh told the court that he responsible for mum-of-four death but said he wasn’t going to kill her during his murder trial.
Jade Marsh “maimed” body was opened in the room that was sealed off with robe cord, heard by the Royal Court of Mold. 27-year-old was found on her home in Shotton, Flintshire, North Wales, on August, 26th last year.
The court heard how Russell Marsh, 29, was filmed by police officers telling them he “did something terrible”. just moments before his ex-partner body It was found. March, of Chevrons Road in Shotton denies murder and alternative account of manslaughter, according to Wales Online.
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jade, who also used the surname Ward, pronounced dead to the scene after the arrival of emergency services. Pathology report found that she received multiple wounds “all over body”, including her face and hands, and traces of capture left her bruises and there was evidence of “defensive”Wounds around her arms show what she’s got”made efforts to fight off who attacked her.
Marsh worked the night shift for his employer Bio Energy in Ellesmere Port on on the night Ms Ward was killed, prosecutor Michael Jones QC told the jury. He said the defendant told his supervisor that he had to leave a few hours on his shift, because brother had overdosed and required hospitalization, a claim the court heard was “completely incorrect”.
March was tracked by security cameras, ANPR and telephone masts heading to north Wales and arrival in former family home in Shotton. The court heard how March “controlled” in relationships that endedfor good” in the summer after they broke up on three separate cases.
Co-op worker Ms Ward allegedly shared kiss with another man in party after the break up and was”moving on” with her life, the court heard. After arriving at the property, Marsh allegedly attacked her with knife before strangling her and then turned himself in to the police next day.
The defendant told the officers that his wife was upstairs and dead in her bed, the court heard. When the police broke into the entrance to property They found Miss Ward in bloodied pajamas covered with heap of clothes. The door was also “secured with a cord from a bathrobe, ”the court heard.
Mr Jones told the court that Miss Ward cause of death was concluded as a suffocation that could only be endured out another person. He added that her body was “mutilated”.
Today on interrogation in trial by his lawyer Christopher Terhani QC, Marsh admitted to having killed Ms Ward way of asphyxiation and had no legal reason for doing so. However, he denied that he had any intentions kill or cause Miss Ward was seriously injured.
Dad-of- five marshes, who left school at 16 with two GCSEs in science and religious studies, it was confirmed that there was a seven-month period in 2017 when he was signed off from work – in another company – due to poor mental health caused “pressure and anxiety.” During this period he was treated.
defendant also told the court that he had approximately £30,000 in debt in 2019 next house repair and payment for a wedding between him and Miss Ward. The couple were together on as well as off for just over nine years in all. Marsh said they had “stony times” for – more so close to the tail of relation. He said the couple were “tired” and “exhausted” and stated that they had “next nothing” when it came to physical relationships.
In the summer of 2019, shortly after the wedding, the couple broke up. up for “diversity of reasons”, the court heard, but they later reconciled within a few days. While of Marsh’s split blamed of bruises on Miss Ward’s wrists. He said he “never showed any cruelty”. with Miss Ward.
March denies murder and alternative account of manslaughter. The case that Judge Rhys Rowlands is hearing and is expected to last two weeks, continued.
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