A Telford woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death wept in the dock at court when she saw a police head-cam recording of paramedics desperately trying to save his life.

Wendy Walters could be heard on the soundtrack insisting to police that Barry Evans had stabbed himself in front of her.

The immediate aftermath of the tragic events of July 7 last year in her flat in Bembridge, Brookside, was captured on a head-mounted Robocam. It was worn by Constable Ross Ashmore, the first policeman at the scene.

The recording was yesterday played to the jury at Birmingham Crown Court where Waters, 42, has denied murdering 45-year-old Mr Evans, of Hurleybrook Way, Leegomery.

The prosecution claims she stabbed a drunk Mr Evans five times in the chest and three times in the back, including a wound which pierced his heart, when they had a row as she returned home from shopping.

Walters who dialled 999 as Mr Evans was bleeding to death on the living room floor, told police he had stabbed himself – a claim dismissed as “simply rubbish” by Mr Williams Davies, QC, prosecuting.

Constable Ashmore’s Robocam recording, played on screens around the courtroom, showed dramatic scenes in the living room as ambulance staff pumped Mr Evans’ chest in an unsuccessful effort to revive him.

Walters could be seen and heard in a bedroom, answering questions from Constable Ashmore about what had happened.

She asked the officer how Mr Evans was and told him she had taken her prescription of heroin substitute methadone that day.

Asked about how Mr Evans came to be stabbed, she said he had been holding a kitchen knife when she came back from the shops and had started “digging” at himself.

“He did it in front of my eyes. I tried to get it off him,” she could be heard saying.

Walters told the officer Mr Evans had stabbed himself about eight times before collapsing in a pool of blood.

She could then be seen leading Constable Ashmore to the kitchen where she opened a drawer, pulled out a long blade and declared: “That’s the knife.”

The trial continues.
By Peter Johnson